Logan Republican | 1903-04-24 | Page 6 | The Population of China

THE POPULATION OF CHINA. Little Doubt It Contains One-Third World's Population. Some doubt has been thrown by ro-cent ro-cent travelers upon the correctness of the accepted notion that China is a land of teomlng population. It has been asserted that the human hives along tho seaboard and tho great rivers riv-ers of China ought not to bo taken as a basis for estimates; that in those parts of the empire which tie off tho main routes of traffic (the natural and artificial water courses,) tho population popula-tion of China is comparatively thin. A census recently taken by the Peking government for the purpose of assessing assess-ing taxes U meet the Indemnity payment pay-ment Htrni, however, to prove the accuracy of the older estimates. The census shows that the eighteen provinces prov-inces of China proper contain 407,-737,305 407,-737,305 Inhabitants; that Manchuria has 8,600,000, and Mongolia, Thibet and Chinese Turkestan a little over 10,000,000. The total population of tho cmplro is 426,447,325, according to this enumeration. The absolute reliability of Asiatic statistics is questioned; ques-tioned; nevertheless, the agreement of the results of tho census with tho accepted estimates Is so close as to Invite confidence. Tho statement that tho Chinese empire contains one-third of the human race will hereafter bo regarded moro than ever as an approximate ap-proximate truth.