The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-10-15
THE WORLDS
Interesting Facts and Figures Oh The
Distribution Of Earth'S People.
A BICYCLE STORY TRUE TO LIFE
Paragraphs OF General Information
Especially for the Ladies-say-
ings OF the Wits-Ail Intended 60
Please the "Herald,, Headers.

A new computation OF the popula tior
Of the globe has recently been made BY
the French statistician and savant p
D'Amfreville, says the Literary Digest
He figured out total of about l,4S0,.
100000 distributed as follows: Asia,
with SIS 1854 900; Europe, with 357 &c.,
600; Africa. l63, 1888 900; America, with
12I, $4,000; Oceanica and the Polar re.
eions, with 1900, 400; Australia, with g.
230, 900; or a grand total Of / ,479,729, 900
souls.
Ia connection with these data the Eng
fish statistician Schooling makes some in
teresting comments. He states that OF
of every 1000 inhabitants Of the globe
558 live in Asia, 242 in Europe, Ill in
Africa, So in America, in Oceanica and
the Polar regions. and only 2 in Australia,
1t then appears that Asia contains more
than one-half of the total population oil
the earth, and Europe nearly one fourth.
Africa contains only one-ninth, and
America only one-twelfth. In Australia
the entire population is less than the
number of inhabitants in the city OF Lon
don alone or in the cities of Paris and
st. Petersburg combined.
In Europe the number OF inhabitants
to the square mile is 95, in Asia it is As,
in Africa it is Is, In 0ceanica and the
Polar regions 1t is 3, in Australia only l..
Accordingly, Europe contains for each OF
its inhabitants % hectares Of land; Asia,
90 hectares; Africa, 17.6 hectares; Ocean
lea and and the polar regions, $40 hec.
tares, America, 3l.2 hectares; Australia,
235. g hectares. "a hectare is equal ia
2.74l acres.) The yearly increase OF pop
ulation on the globe is about 5 to every
/ 900. At this ratio the population of the
earth would be doubled every l29 years.
OF every 1000 Europeans, 262 are sub
jects OF Russia, 139 OF Germany, 1l6 are
Austro- Hungarians, 107 French, LOG
English, "a Italians, 4S Spanish, IL Bel
gians and 121 OF the minor countries.
In reference to the density OF .popula-
ton, Belgium takes the lead with 546 to
square mile, followed by England with
Sl2, Italy with 263, Germany with 237,
France with 1884. Austro- Hungary with
III, Spain with 80, Russia with 40. The
average Of all the other countries is AZ To
square mile, and the average for all
Europe is SO.
In Asia the $4,000, 900 are distributed
in the following manner: China takes
the lead with $50 millions, British India
with 27S millions, Japan with 40, East
Indian Islands with 391s, French pos
sessions in India with 10, Corea with
1917, English Burmah with ~, Persia
with ~, Asiatic Russia and Turkestan
with ~, Siberia with Az, Afghanistan
with 4, Ceylon with 8, Arabia with 21a,
all other parts of Asia with 4aR mil.
lions.
OF every ! 900 Asiatics, 424 are Chin
ese, 1897 are Hindus Subjects OF England)
4S are Indian Islanders, including % In
the French possessions, Is are Coreans,
IL are Siamese, 8 are Burmans, 8 are
Persians, 8 are Russians, are Siberians,
are Afghans, are Singhalese, are
Arabs, and So belong to smaller nation.
alities.