The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-05
FRIDAY, JANUARY ), 1877.
The Population OF the World.

In entering upon new year, while
private individuals are casting up their
accounts and making general rctrospec.
ton Of the past, II cannot but be Of inter.
est to take broader glance, in q few facts
and figures, over the world. We are per.
nitted TODD this by the aid of work re.
Gently given to the public by two great
German StatistiCians, Drs. Benin and
Wagner. They estimate the population
Of the earth for 1876 at l,4239l7,OOO.
The area Of land surface Is estimated at
6l,3iO,SOO square miles, giving an aver.
age Of twenty.eight people to one square
mile. The population Of the great divi-
siOns d the globe Is stated as follows:
squarC miles. Inhabitants, spS Sns'y yu Ii.
Europe-.,".". 3,77G,i91 Ogl7s,3OO 81
Ada""..",".l7,07 9,JSJ SN,6i3JDl Is
AaiIisa.;;i.."sJil,il6'9i lggg2l,COO ~
Polynesia. a,sN,2lo 4,7lsool ~
Ameflca."".lJCsISiO S,5lgs0O ~
The population of Germany Is set
down at i3,723,9l2, an increase Of l,C03,-
7G2 since 1871; Austro.Hungary, $1,000
900; Switzerland, 1860, ll7; Netherlands,
3,SO0,527; Belgium, 5,33C,52i; Russia, IL
73O,9SO; total population OF Russia in
Europe and Asia, SG,5S6,OOO, an increase
Of 100000 over 1875, due mainly to addi.
tons ofterritory in Central Asia; Swcd-
en-, l,SSS20l; Norway, l,8O2,SS2, an in
crease Of 10000 over 1875; Denmark,
100000; France, 3GlO3,02l, slight dc.
crease; Great Britain, 33,l50,OOO, an in.
crease over last year OF $4,000; Spain,
lG,55l,6i7; Portugal l,20S,Ssl, an in
crease OF 10000 since 1871; Italy, 81
dS2,l7i: Roumsnia, 5,O73,OOO; Servia,
l,3770OS; Montenegro, 10000; Greece,
l,457S8i.
The population oithc Turkish Empire
in Europe, Asia and Africa, ia i7GGO,-
600, Of which Asia claims 100000,
Africa 2O,5OO0OO. Asia Isl set down as
having 2j,O0O,OOO more population than
last year. British India has nearly 49,
100000 inhabitants; China, 405,0OOO 900;
Japan, 3@,290,0l4; Australia, ! 1867, 900;
New Zealand, 42l 1876; tho Fiji Island,
10000, The population Of Africa is set
down at 2,4iS,0Gl in Algeria, Egypt IT,
100000; the British possessions In South
Africa, l,33S,7O2.
There is said to have been m increase
OF 100000 in America, over the popu-
lation given II year ago. The United
States is set down at 100000, but these
figures are evidently derived from
the census Of 1870. The popula-
ton Ia now at the lowest calcu-
lation 4G,OO0,00O. At the rate Of
increase prevailing before the war, name
ly, three per cent. per annum, the present
population would be 45,742,SO0, but it
can be called in round numbers 10000
600. New Foundland is credited with a
large increase, the figures now being
lOl 1856; Canada, 1872, JIG; Mexico, o.
2IO,O19; the Central American States, .
S2S, l6i, 4 decrease; the West Indies, A.
3lO, l1S; entire South America, 26,3O9,-
700, oil which Brazil claims 100000,
The statisticians give list Of 2l5 towns
having 100000 or more population; and
twenty.nine with over 100000. OF the
latter the nine following have over l.
100000; Berlin, l,0l5,00O; Canton, Soang.
tan, Shanchowfu and Singanlu (Chinal,
100000 each; London, 3ISg52S; New
York with Brooklyn, 1885, G22; Paris,
1851 ,I92, and Vienna, COL 900,