Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — The World’s Population. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Population.

The United States Bureau of Statistics, getting its information from reliable sources (mainly from a work issued at Gotha, 1875, by Drs. Behm and Wagner), furnishes the following interesting facts and figures ou the above subject: The aggregate population of the earth is 1,891,032,000, Asia being the most populous section, and containing 798,000,000; while Europe has 300,500,000; Africa, 203,000,000; America, 84,500,000, and Australia and Polynesia, 4,500,000. In Europe the leading nations are credited with the following numbers: Russia, 71,000,000; the German Empire, 41,000,000; France, 36,000,000; Great Britain and Ireland, 32,000,000; Italy, nearly 27,000,000: Spain, 16,500,000, and Turkey nearly 16.000,000. The other countries do not exceed over 5,000,000 each. In Asia, China, which is by far the most populous nation of*the earth, is credited with 425.000,000: Hindostan with 240,000,000; Japan. 33,000,000; the East India Islands, 30,500,000; Burmah, Siam and farther India, nearly 26,000,000; Turkey, 13,500,000, and Russia, 11,000,000. The Australian population is given at 1,674,500, and the Polynesian Islands at 2,763,500, New Guinea and New Zealand being included in the latter. In Africa the chief divisions are West Soudan and the Central Africa region, 39,000,000; South Africa, 20,250,000; the Gala country and the region east of the White Nile, 15,000,000; Samauli, 8,000,000; Egypt, 8,500,000, and Morocco, 6,000,000. In America two-thirds of the population are north of the Isthmus, where the United States has nearly 89,000,000; Mexico over 9,000,000, and the British Provinces 4,000,000. The total population of North America is given at 52,000,000, and of South America 25,500,000, of which Brazil contains 10,000,000. The "West Indies have over 1,000,000, and the Central American States not quite 3,000,000. According to these tables London, with 8,254,260 inhabitants, is the most populous city in the world, whilst Philadelphia, 674,022 inhabitants (in 1870), is the eighteenth city in point of population. These eighteen cities, in their order, are the following: London, 3,254,260; But chan (China), 2.000,000; Paris, 1,851,792; Peking, 1.300,000; Tschantschau-tu, 1,000,000; Hangts-ta-fu, 1,000,000; Siangtan, 1,000,000; Sanenan-fu, 1,000,000; Canton, 1,000,000; New York. 942,292; Tientsin, 900,000; Vienna, 834,384; Berlin, 826,341; Hankau, 800,000; Tschintufu, 800,000; Calcutta, 794,645; tokio Yeddo, 674,447, and Philadelphia, 674,r 022. Of cities smaller than Philadelphia the leading ones are: St. Petersburg, 667,963; Bombay, 644,405; Moscow,- 611,970; Constantinople, 600,000; Glasgow, 594,536; Liverpool, 493,405, and Rio de Janeiro, 420,000. —A stone mortar was recently discovered in California, eighteen feet'beneath the surface- Its appearance leads,to the belief’that it was once a household utensil of a-race long since extinct. —The narrowest striped colored silk sell at from 65 cents to $1.25 a yard.