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MOVEMENT OF THE POPULATION

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II. Movement or the Population.

I. Births, Deaths, and Marriage*.

England and Wales.

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1914

1917 1918 1919 1920 ;

Estimated

Population at 30th June

36,960,684 33.711, 000 1 33,474,700 1 36,800,000 37,609,600

Total Births

Illegitimate Births

879,096 668,346 662,661 692,438 957,994

37,329 37,022

41,876

Mh

516,742 498,922 611,861 504,203 406,211

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294,401 118,866

1 Estimate*! civil population.

- Provisional figures.

In 1920 the proportion of male to female births was 1,052 male to 1,000 female.

Scotland.

Estimated

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Population at 30th Jane

Total Births

1914

4.747,167

1917

S.738

97,441

1918

".274

98,554

1919

.077

J 06,

1920 '

4,864,396

IS

Illegitimate

1 •»•!.-

Marriages

1 Provisional tigi. Proportion of male to female births in 1920 was 1,044 to 1,000. Ireland.

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Estimated Population at 30th June

Total Births

Illegitimate Birth*

Marriages

1914

4,381,398

9S.S06

2,943

71.345

23,695

1917 1918 1919 1920 *

4,380,000 4,399,000 4,462,000 4.470,000

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104

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95 812

06. 793

'73

.70

.93

1 Provisional figures.

The proportion of male to female births in Ireland in 1920 was 1,061 to 1,000.

2. E<-< 'ration and Imnitfiration. In the thirty-eight yea: J number of emigrants from

the United Kingdom was 3,463,592. Up to 1S52 the emigration returns made no distinction betweenjihitish subjects and foreigners. From 1853 to