Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-11-13
The Chinese Empire has from 250,-
100000 to 43O,OOO,O00 sub
iects Alone.
The Whole Globe has About | ,48O,.
100000 living People Upon
1t To Day.

the human race has been MADE the Su o.
leCt of systematic enumeration; the dates
Of the most recent enumeration In different
countries are six year, apart, and ever
then the official statistics are not always
calculated to inspire Unlimited confidence.
A striking case in roint is offered by our
own census of $780, which, although
taken at the lavish outlay Of more than
So 600, 900, and with the aid of vast
army Of enumerators and other officials,
bristIes with errors OF which it Is safe 10
say that more and more will come to light
as it's results are submitted to a more rig
orous scientific analysis. If results OBJ
tanned 10y such elaborate and expensive
machinery are opened to so many grave
suspicious, 1t is 10y no means surprising
hat in the case of countries whose pOpula
ion can only be estimated, or, IN palmer
language, more or less plausibIy guesse d
at there should be the widest disCrepan-
Cies between the various estimators or
guessers. An extreme example is pre-.
scented by the Chinese Empire, Of which
the estimat of reputable staG,ticians
vary from $50 000,0 600 TO 430 600 000 The
difficulties of the task, however, have not
deferred the experts in statistics from al
tempting its solution, and 10y a patent and
detailed examination the elimination of
the manifold sources of error, figures have
been arrived at which can lay claim to at
least temporary VALIDITY, and may be
safely used for practical purposes.
Among the most highly esteemed and
most Trustworthy OF such complications
have been the tables OF population of
Benin and Wagner, of which seven sue
Cessivn additions appeared between 1872
and 1882, when they were interrupted by
Behm's death. After an interval Of nine
years this useful publication is again re-
sumed under the editorship Of Hermann
Wagner and Alexander Supan, in
quarto volume of 27l pages of statistics
brought down to August, 1891, and in
Guiding the British census of Aprit 6 of
this ear. 1t bears the imprint OF Perthes
in Gotha and Westermann in New York.
Other recently similar works are those of
Emile DevasSeur 1856 so and Hubner
Juraschek 1850.
The eXtant statistical material concern
ing the area and population of the habit
able globe is submitted by Profe sors Wag-
ner and Supan to a minute and highly
Intelligent criticism, and their conclusions
are in every case supported by reasons
which are wGighty and convincing. They
estimate the total population Of the globe
at 4SO 100000, of which Euro has
357. 900 600; Asia. S26 100000; Africa,
l64, 900 600; America, 122,O00,0 900; Aus
.traiA, 5000 900; the Oceanic Islands, Z
100000. More than one-fourth OF the
human race is found in China and Japan,
the former counting $50 100000 and the
latter 40 600 900; more than ono-hfth Is m
India, 324 900 600, of which $50 900, 600
belong to British India. Comparing the
chief European states with ours, the only
one that exceeds our $1,000 600 is Russia,
% 600 900. The others range as follows:
The German Empire, 40 100000; Austria
Hungary. Al 900 600; France, $4,000 900;
Great Bitain and Ireland, 50 OOO GOO;
Italy, 10000, 600, and Spain, l7,OOOO 900.
The density of population is greatest in
Europe which averages thirty-seven in
habltants to the square kilometre, against
nineteen in Asia, five in Africa and three
America (2,S23 square klI0metres-l, $50
square miles, 1t will thus be seen that, If
the American and the Asian continents
were az denseIy populate d ms Europe, the
former would held nearly the whole of the
present population of the globe, and the
latter far greater population. q The com
parative densities of the principal coun-
tries, beginning with the most thi KY
populated, are as follows: Berglun, III
to the sqlare Rilometre; the Kingdom Of the
Netherlands, 1873; Great Brltain and Ire
land. l2i; ltalv, los; Japan, 1885, the Ger
man Empire, 81; China, 90; b itIsh India,
rs; Switzerland, u; France, II; Austria,
&c; Denmark, 81; Portugal, 4S; Span, IS;
West lndas 81; Uuited States, 7. The
order of precedence Is somewhat changed,
if Germany and Great Britain are viewed,
not us entities, but rs composite states,
and the states composing them are taken
separately. In that case the Kingdom OF
SdXony appears as the most den>ely popu-
lated country in the world, having 233 IN
habitan's to each square kilometrr; and
next comes England. with 209, and after
that Belgium, as above, 1t we take the
separate states of our uniOn we hnd at
the top Rh'dn Island With l06, Massachu
setts with lO4 ranging even with Italy
and Japan; next comes New jersey, IL,
the same rs France and Switzerland; Con-
rectlcut 81, the same as Denmark; New
York AZ, and Pennsylvania As, little less
than Portugal.
An endless series of interesting com.
parsons suggests itself, bu, we will here
cou6ue ourselves to a few selections which
may vtford crumbs Of comfort to the de-
Spondent pubEcsts who view with so much
alarm the increasing army { immigrants.
The area of the United ate, is very
nearly equal tc that of all Europe, which
has population OF 357 600 600; the state
of Texas alone has a greater area than
even Germany and Austria, whose populu-
tious are respectively forty nine and fifty
one mill ms. lfthat state were as densely
settled Us Massachusetts it would hello
nearly seventy NIL ions, as much as France
and Great Britain together. The area OF
the middle Atlantic sta IS is n little in ex-
cess OF that of ltaiy, and, with popula-
ton as lense as that of NJ ,SSachusetts,
could mud room for all the Italian people.
In order not to 20 to extremes, we refrain
from dtducing the startling results that
could be ob aimed by using the population
If England or Belgium as basis, al
though there Is IL good reason whvcon.
: rahle portions of cur country should
not maintain rs thickly settled pcpula
tiou The very moderate assump' ions made
above are sufficient to show how little we