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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

Are* :

Population

Population

_

English

31 Dee. 1906

31 De<*. 1917

square mile*



(Csnsr.s)

(Official estimate)

Java and Madura

50,557

30,098,008

34,157,383

Sumatra, West Coast

15,494

1, 308,771'

-,624

Tapanceli

16,167

413,301*

.238

I Sumatra, East Coast

35,312

568,417-

834,140

Island of J Benkulcn

9,399

204,269*

Sumatra 1 Lampongs

11,284

156,518'

171,572

Palembang.

32,574

589,734'

760,545

Djambi.

19,038

206,620'

207,265

^Atjeh.

20,471

58-2

7M

Riau-Lingga Archipelago.

16,301

112.210

199,649

Banca.

4,446

115,189'

154,178

Billiton

1,863

36,858'

59,481

Borneo, West Coast.

55,825

450,929-

573,637

Borneo, South and East Districts

156,912

7 82, 726 s

940,866

Island of / Celebes Celebes \ Menado

49,390

415,999*

2,352,018

22,680

436,406 3

742,026

Molucca J £ rabo j na / • • ■

Islands \l eru ^ : • * UNew Guinee 7

) 13,118

299,491*

360,934*

9,663 J 121,339

108,415*

200,135*

Timor Archipelago

17,698

308,600"

1,091,349

Bali and Lombok

4,065

523,535*

1,344,880

Approximate total'.

683,000

38,000,000

47,000,000

1 Tolerably accurate. s Approximate. * Mere conjecture.


 * Including West and South New Guinea. 5 Including North Sew Guinea.


 * The population of several countries, unexplored until 13X6, is included in the

estimate of 1017. A new census was taken in 1920. ' A province created in 1920.

The total number of Europeans and persons assimilated to them was, in 1905, 80,910 ; of these 38,812 malesand 34,982 females were Dutch, of whom 32,026 males and 32, 288 females were born in the East Indies ; of the remainder, 1,406 were German, 184 French, 312 English, 197 Swiss, 315 Belgians. Of the remaining population about 563,000 were Chinese, 29,000 Arabs, and 23,000 other Orientals, and about 37,200,000 natives. In 1917 the j>opulation was estimated as follows : 138,875 Europeans, 46,232,127 natives and 832,667 other Orientals, chiefly Chinese and Arabs.

Marriages, births, and deaths among Euroi>eans and j>ersons assimilated to them : —

-

Marriages, Births

Deaths

1916

1917

1916

1917

1916

1917

Java and

967 141

1,178 159

3.S66 1,005

3,419 1,040

1,625 ! 1,788 371 *'"