AREA AND POPULATION
1113
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 *'"
