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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

1. England and Wales. The census population of England and Wales 1801 to 1911 :—

Date of Enumeration

1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851

Population

8,892,536 10,164,256 12,000,236 13,896,797 15,914,148 17,927,609

Pop. per sq. mile

152 174 206

238 273 307

Date of Enumeration

1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911

Population

20,066,224 22,712,266 25,974,439 29,002,525 32,527,843 136,070,492

Pop. per sq. mile

344

389 445 497

558 618

Poxmlation of England and Wales and of the Administrative Counties and County Boroughs in 1901 and 1911.

Area in

Statute

Acres

(Land and

Inland

Water.)

Population.

Increase (+) or Decrease ( - ) per cent, between 1901

1901.

191L

and 1911.

Administrative Counties:—

England.

Bedfordshire ....

302,942

171,707

194,588

+ 18-3

Berkshire ....

456,491

180,354

195,811

+ 8-6

Buckinghamshire

479,300

197,046

219,551

+ 11-4

Cambridgeshire .

315,168

120,264

128,322

+ 6-7

Isle of Ely . . .

238,073

64,495

69,752

+ 8-2

Cheshire ....

644,172

593,885

676,275

+ 13-9

Cornwall ....

868,167

322,334

328,098

+ 1-8

Cumberland.

973,086

266,933

265,746

- 0-4

Derbyshire ....

645,097

484,846

560,013

+15-5

Devonshire ....

1,662,672

436,938

457,831

+ 4.7

Dorsetshire ....

625,612

202,063

223,260

+10-5

Durham ....

637,672

768,024

929,214

+ 21-0

Essex ....

974,849

816,640

1,061,851

+30-0

Gloucestershire .

786,016

321,442

329,014

+ 2-4

Herefordshire .

53S;,924

114,125

114,269

+ 0-1

Hertfordshire

404,523

258,423

311,284

+ 20-5

Huntingdonshire.

233,985

54,125

55,577

+ 2-7

Kent ....

971,991

936,240

1,020,965

+ 9-0

Lancashire .

1,066,529

1,578,145

1,739,320

+10-2

Leicestershire

524,197

225,911

249,331

+ 10-4

Lincolnshire —

The parts of Holland

268 992

77,610

82,849

+ 6-S

The parts of Kesteven

465,878

103 962

111,324

+ 7-1

The parts of Lindsey

963,800

1 206,528

237,843

+15-2

London

74.816

4,536,267

4,521,685

- 0-3

Middlesex .

148,701

1 792,476

1,126,465

+42-1

Monmouthshire .

345,048

1 230,806

312,028

. +35-2

Norfolk

1,303.570

! 311,315

321,733

+ 3-3

Northamptonshire

581,679

1 207,485

213,734

+ 3-0

Soke of Peterborough

53,464

41,122

44.718

-1- 8-7

Northumberland

l,278,fi91

1 304,730

371,474

+21-9

Nottinghamshire

529,188

i 274,716

344,194

+25-3

Oxfordshire

475,968

! 137,124

146,221

+ 6-6

Rutlandshire

97,273

I 19.709

20,846

+ 3-2

Shropshire .

861,800

1 239,783

246,307

+ 2-7