Progress of Population in the intervals of the periodic Censuses between the Years 1841 and 1901.

		1841. 1st.	1847. 2nd.	1851. 3rd.	1857. 4th.	1861. 5th.	1870. 6th.	1881. 7th.	1891. 8th.	1901. 9th.	1841 to 1901.
POPULATION—
Population (Numerical)—
Persons.	No.	50,216	70,164	70,130	†81,492	†89,977	99,328	115,705	146,667	172,475
Males	No.	34,504	47,828	43,127	45,916	49,593	52,853	61,162	77,560	89,624
Females	No.	15,712	22,336	25,482	34,886	40,384	46,475	54,543	69,107	82,851
Population (Centesimal)—
Persons	per cent.	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Males	per cent.	68.70	68.17	61.50	56.35	55.12	53.21	52.86	52.88	51.97
Females	per cent.	31.30	31.83	38.50	43.65	44.88	46.79	47.14	47.12	48.03
Females to 100 Males		45.54	46.70	59.06	75.98	81.43	84.73	89.18	89.12	92.44
Persons to the square mile, No.		1.92	2.68	2.68	3.11	3.43	3.79	4.39	5.60	6.58
Persons to the inhabited dwelling, No.		7.32	7.37	6.25	5.71	5.12	5.50	5.26	5.23	5.05
Percentage Increase or Decrease since last Census—*
Decennial Rate			63.46	-0.15	26.64	25.91	11.76	14.78	26.76	17.59
Annual Rate			5.45	-0.00	2.50	2.44	1.13	1.38	2.40	1.64	2.09
Births since previous Census No.			8,790	5,780	15,390	12,927	26,531	36,126	45,209	48,374	199,217
Deaths since previous Census No			5,011	3,034	9,696	6,182	12,276	18,781	20,208	20,387	95,575
Excess of births over deaths, Census No.			3,779	2,746	5,694	6,745	14,255	17,345	25,001	27,987	103,552
Balance of migration, ditto* No			16,169	- 2780	5,668	1,740	-4,901	968	5,961	-2,179	18,707
Net increase of population since previous Census No			19,948	- 34	11,362	8,485	9,351	16,377	30,962	25,808	122,259
Percentage increase or decrease since previous Census, due per year—
Due to natural increase, per cent			1.17	1.23	1.29	2.00	1.68	1.45	1.97	1.77
Due to migration, per cent			4.56	-1.30	1.29	0.53	-0.64	-0.09	0.48	-0.13
Net increase	Per cent		5.45	0.00	2.50	2.44	1.13	1.38	2.40	1.64	2.09