Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — Population of Australia. [ARTICLE]

Population of Australia.

An advance estimate of the population of the commonwealth of Australia places the total number of people in the six states as 4,474,000, reports Consul General John P. Bray, Sidney. Allowing for what may be styled a normal increase during the months which must elapse before April 1, 1911, when the ten-year census will be taken, there should be at that date a total of 4,600,000. That would represent an increase during the decade of about 725,000,000, or 19- per cent. Taking the nine and three-fourths years to December 81, next, the federal statistician estimates that’ New South Wales will show an increase of 305,000, Victoria an increase of 127,000, West Australia of 97,000, Queensland of 94,000, South Australia of 61,000 and Tasmania of only 15,600. The estimates follow: New South Wales, 1,661,000; Victoria, 1,328,000; Queensland, 592,000; South Australia, 425,000; West Australia, 280,000; Tasmania, 188,000. It is calculated that West Australia has relatively gained 1.41 per cent, and Queensland 0.03 per cent., but Jthat Victoria had relatively lost 2.14 per cent., Tasmania 0.36 per oent., and South Australia 0.14 per cent