Diminishing Rate of Annual Increase.
|
Annual Rate Period, 1861-91. |
Per cent. Period, 1891-1901. |
|
Australasia.
|
|
|
| Natural Increase, or excess of births over deaths |
2.36 |
1.62 |
| Excess of Immigration over Emigration |
1.49 |
0.16 |
| Total |
3.85 |
1.78 |
| Time in years in which the respective rates, if continuous, would double the population |
18.3 |
39.3 |
|
United Kingdom.
|
|
|
| Total Net Increase from all causes |
0.89 |
0.73 |
| Years required to double population |
78 |
95 |