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Show A German statistician has Just completed com-pleted a painstaking estimate of the population of the world, taking the censuses cen-suses that were available and making guesses where there were no returns. He puts the total at 1,503,300,000. He gives Europe 392,264,000 people; Asia, 819,550,000; Africa, 140,700,000; North America, 105.714,000; South America, 3fi.482.000; Australia and Polynesia, C.4S3.000; the North and South Polar regions, re-gions, 91,000. All such estimates for the last fifty years have been about the same for the total, though varying In detail. For this estimate, we should say that as the North American division includes the West India Islands, Mexico, Mex-ico, Central America and Canada, as the statistician lumps them, we should say that his figures are somewhat too low, as the United States has Undoubtedly Undoubt-edly over eighty millions of people now, and twenty-five millions Is hardly enough to allow for all the others. |