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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINQDOM

population 1,169,628 or 24'6 per cent. Population of the principal burghs : —

Census

Census

Estimated

Census

Census

Estd.

Burghs

fop. in

Pop. in

Pop. in

Burghs

Pop. in

Pop. in

Pop. in

1901

1911

1919

1901

1911

1919

Glasgow i.


 * 775,594

784,496

1,113,454

Motherwell 1.

31,144

40.3SO

42,130

Edinburgh.

317,459

320,318

338,060

Kirkcaldy

34,079

39.601

40,615

Dundee K.

162,982

165,004

183,3S8

Hamilton

32,775

38.644

39,531

Aberdeen.

153,003

163,891

167,146

Cly.lebankl.

20,898

37,543

48,025

Paisley

79,363

84,455

89,425

Perth i.


 * 33.995

35,854

36,214

Leith.

77,439

80,488

84,281

Kilmarnock.

34,165

34,728

37,604

Greenock 1 ^

68,911

75,140

79,613

Falkirk.

j 29,280

33,574

34,8.i]

Coatbridge.

36,991

43,2S6

44,513

Ayr.

28,697

32,986

33,603

1 In these cases the boundaries of the burghs have been altered since 1901, and the 1901 population of the burghs as they stood in 1911 is given.

The' occupations of the population aged 10 years and upwards, according to the census of 1911, were as follows : —

-

Males

Females

Total

47,408

81,675

201,066

283,465

227,111

1,226,242

Government and defence Professional .... Domestic .... Commercial and transport Agricultural and fishing. Industrial ....

Total occupied Unoccupied and non-produc- tive .....

42,476

45,713

34,488

245,621

193,731

911,728

4,932 35,962

166,578 37,844 33,380

314,514

1,473,757 309,024

593,210 1,338,410

2,066,967 1,647,434

Total.

1,782,781

1,931,320

3,714,401

3. Ireland. Area 32,586 square miles ; population at different census periods : —

SS&S 1 Popul * tlon

Pop. per ! sq. mile

Tear of j m....i.iin. i Pop. per Census 1 Population „,,.' ,„'„,.

1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851

5.395,456 5,937.856 6,801,827 7,767,401 8,175,124 6,552,385

166 1861 5,798,564 178 186 1871 l 5,412,377 167 209 1 1881 5,174,836 159 239 1891 4,704,750 144 251 1901 4,458,775 137 201 1911 4,390,219 135