Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — The World's Population. [ARTICLE]

The World's Population.

The present population of the wneld is •owewhere between 7 ftairuivi.and fiftedn Behur and Wagner, placing it about midway between the limits wjp ’ , hhtiEr' md»ttoeed. The the number more closely will be apparent when it is remembered thmofily in u «wrefparatively small part pf, Jmxb careful censuses, or, inderar ©(pauses «f any kind, ever been msde, ; »-A syMemalte enumeration pf tbelnhabitants of Indin, a year ajro, discovered that the population of that great empire had. previously, been under-estimated by upward.of 25.000,000, sus returnsaqf Euiopg are tolerably co» Germany. 1876 “I? 723,000 Belgium;.. .V...... IW4 >. J6,3m,0D0 JX. j.. 13783 - „ ufi.mQfX) Sweden and Portugal slightly r eluted Switzerland fails,to reach 3.QQOJX)O, while Denmark! tad Norway fall Somdilfek Below 2,000,000.' Grledq Wdfaiwifa fall half a million.mqre. The jaggregate, population of Eurdpe is thtJs-S'llWte l *over 300,000,000, giving a density of to ’ikesquare mile. . ,> ... JTM IZOPUletion of Asia; According to the same or 48 to the bqnare mile. TheKmeßt populous nation is China, with over 400,000,000 people. British India hU about tiitlf as many; Japan over 33,000,00fit' Twrfcey to Aeto *-IQ Knn onq, AojqHn tf„ Ba ; n about 15,000,000. , has a population close upott America about 85,520,000; Australia and Polynesia leCs thnii 5,000,000.-- ThW'deßSUyUf the Pofjraesia, about There are ten cities in the world that have a population of a million or -note, 596,000; Constantinople, 1,075,000; Berlin, .1,045,090: Vienna, 1,001,000; and Cantt>n, Bedhgran, Shanchowfu siangfu, in China, with I,ooo,ooojsgqh. .There are twenty-nine cities with 500,00fror'm6re each', and 215!witto 100,000 rir dtorg people.—Scioniifiz j