Numbers and Proportions per Cent. at successive Censuses., TABLE I.—Birth-places of the Population, and Proportions per cent., Censuses of 1870 and 1881.

Where born.	1870.		1881.
	Numbers.	Proportions per cent.	Numbers.		Proportions per cent.
In Tasmania	59,119	59.52		79,991		69.12
Other Australian Colonies	1,793	1.80		3,987		2.44
England	37,145	37.40	28,243	16,964	24.41	14.46
Wales				343		0.30
Scotland				3,744		3.24
Ireland				7,192		6.21
Other British Possessions, and at sea	339	0.34		672		0.75
Foreign Countries	932	0.94		2,223		1.93
Not specified				389		0.33
	99,328	100.00		115,705		100.00