The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-20
SOME LESSONS.

The Census results of the various
countries of the earth keep coming and
results which occasionally astonish the
statisticians have been found. Thus
among the Australian returns New
South Wales has increased by a num-
Der four times as great as the increase
of Victoria, during the last decade. No
one thought that the old conservative
colony would have. made such an ad-
vance against the progressive colony
of Victoria which is regarded as the
California of. the Southern Hemisphere.
The census returns however, show
that the increase in the population of
Victoria since 1891 is only 50. 469. against
an increase of 27S,0j9 in the previous
decade The increase is almost entirely
in females, During the decade females
have increased 81, $50 and males only
3,4S7. Since 1891 the natural increase
by excess of births over deaths has
been 100000, and the excess of depart
ures over arrivals, therefore, is $4,000
Thus one tenth of the population in
1891 has left Victoria during the de-
cade.
AT the census of 1891 Victoria had the
largest population among the Australi-
an colonies; now New South Wales
leads in this respect. The increase in
the rural population largely exceeds
that of the urban. The population of
Melbourne is now 1896, an increase
since 1891 of 1850; the population of
the remainder of the colony is 7O1, 99S.
showing an increase of 52,4O9
Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat and
Geelong combined show an increase in ,
poulatioh of 12,SO3; the remainder of
the state 1876. The census returns !
show that the population of New South
Wales is now approximately, 1862, 232. |
an increase since the last census of
100000, While Victoria has a population
of 1,195,954.
There are some interesting matters
in these facts for us to contemplate. |
We see that in spite of a large increase |
of departures over arrivals, the natural |
increase of births over deaths overbal- |
ances the depletion $4,000. The natural |
increase was 100000. Our statistics,
what we have of them, show a decrease
of births instead of an increase, and |
the population of the Territory of Ha-
wall must be in a most unsatisfactory |
state if its statistics are to be believed |
Though the colony of Victoria has not |
increased as rapidly as it was supposed |
it would do, it has been getting into |
"A more healthy condition. The increase |
as shown above is mainly among the !
females, and this shows that there has |
been an exodus among the super
abundant males, and the just proper
tions between the sexes is neared. AS in |
most new countries there are dspro- |
portions between the sexes, and even |
among the older countries as we'll In
point Of fact Europe is the only divis- |
ion of the globe where there is an ex-
cess of females over males. In all other
divisions the males are in excess. The |
Australian males outnumbers the fe-
males by half a million in a population
of close on to five millions.
As was pointed out in these columns,
a few days ago, Hawaii has the unen- |
Viable notoriety of being second on the !
list of disproportion between males and |
females, Hongkong stands at the head |
with 400 women to every thousand |
men, and the Territory of Hawaii comes