Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1921.djvu/433

 AREA AND POPULATION

381

The average density of the population is 15 persons to the square mile, or one person to every 43 acres.

The population in 1891 included 9,377 Chinese and 565 aborigines ; in 1901, 7,349 Chinese and 652 aborigines ; and in 1911, 5,601 Chinese and 643 aborigines.

At the date of the census of 1911, 98 per cent, of the population were British subjects by birth ; native Victorians numbered 1,010,219, or 77 per cent, of the population : natives of the other Australian States, 98,726 ; of New Zealand, 10,067 ; of England and Wales, 89,382 ; of Ireland, 41,477 ; of Scotland, 26,577 ; of Germany, 6,142 ; of Austria 355 ; of other countries, 20,285 ; 1,303 were born at tea and the birthplaces of 11,018 were un- specified.

Of the total population in 1911, there were 577,053 bread-winners and 7£l,137 dependants, while 17,361 were not accounted for. Of the bread- winners there were — professional, 43,819 ; domestic, 62,175 ; commercial, 91,61! : industrial. 187,773 ; engaged in transport, 39,238 ; primary pro- ducers, 144,384 (including agricultural, 86,152 ; pastoral, 29,340 ; fisheries, 873; mining, 20,239 ; forestry, 5,151 ; water conservation, 1,627 ; capture of wild animals and their produce, 1,002) ; indefinite, 8,053.

Over three-fifths of the total population of Victoria live in towns. At the end of 1919 it was estimated tbat the town population numbered 961,888, out of a total population of 1,495,938.

Inclusive of the suburbs the estimated population on December 31, 1919, of Melbourne was 743,000, or half of that of the State : Ballarat, 39,840; Bendigo, 34,780; Geelong, 34,270; Warrnambool, 7,500; Castle- maine, 7,862; Mildura, 7,000; Maryborough, 4,900; Hamilton, 5,000; and Ararat, 4,800.

The following are the births, deaths, and marriages in the State for tiv years : —

Tear

1915 1916

1917 1918 1919

Total Births

35,010 34,239 33,035 31,601 31,621

Illegitimate

2,012 1,764 1,820 1,844 1,825

Deaths

15,823 16,489 14,555 15,177 19,370

Marriages

12,832

11,341

9,506

9,156

11,706

Surplus of

19,187

17,750 18,480 16,424 12,251

The recorded immigration into and emigration from the State of Victoria by sea were as follow in recent years : —

Tear

Immigration (by sea)

(by sea)

Immigration (by sea)

Emigration (by »e»)

1913 1915 1916

114,586 85.977 1 80,458 1

101,71<? 1917 88.189 1 191S 76,' 1919

5S.9761 48,566 1 33,621 1

58,774 1 51,631 1 37,099 1

1 Exelusite of members of the Australian Expeditionary Forces.