Proportions per Cent. at each Quinquennial Age Period at Successive Censuses., TABLE VI.—Showing (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines) the Proportions per Cent. of the Persons, Males, and Females, at each Quinquennial Period of Age, to the Total of all Ages, at the last Four Censuses.

Age.	Proportions per Cent. of each Age to the Total of all Ages.
	1854.			1857.			1861.			1871.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
All Ages	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
0 to 5	11.47	8.81	16.32	14.97	12.12	19.61	17.85	15.27	21.53	16.39	15.42	17.51
5 to 10	8.92	6.94	12.53	8.40	6.75	11.08	10.38	8.77	12.68	14.96	14.03	16.06
10 to 15	6.72	5.41	9.10	6.72	5.56	8.63	6.71	5.73	8.08	12.03	11.27	12.91
15 to 20	7.02	5.93	9.01	6.27	5.25	7.93	6.16	5.11	7.66	7.62	6.81	8.55
20 to 25	15.91	16.36	15.10	13.77	13.59	14.07	9.91	9.36	10.68	6.83	6.10	7.68
25 to 30	16.27	18.31	12.54	16.70	18.83	13.26	14.44	15.70	12.66	7.37	7.11	7.67
30 to 35	12.57	14.18	9.61	12.10	13.78	9.38	12.38	14.38	9.48	7.46	7.63	7.28
35 to 40	8.07	9.05	6.27	8.17	9.33	6.26	8.04	9.30	6.22	8.10	8.93	7.14
40 to 45	5.85	6.70	4.31	5.45	6.28	4.09	5.84	6.78	4.48	6.88	8.14	5.41
45 to 50	3.15	3.64	2.26	3.23	3.73	2.40	3.27	3.86	2.46	4.43	5.28	3.43
50 to 55	2.23	2.62	1.52	2.06	2.36	1.58	2.40	2.77	1.89	3.33	3.98	2.57
55 to 60	0.82	0.92	0.65	1.07	1.23	0.81	1.15	1.32	0.93	1.83	2.16	1.45
60 to 65	0.60	0.67	0.48	0.61	0.67	0.52	0.88	0.98	0.74	1.37	1.57	1.14
65 to 70	0.22	0.25	0.17	0.26	0.27	0.22	0.32	0.35	0.27	0.68	0.78	0.57
70 to 75	0.11	0.13	0.08	0.13	0.15	0.11	0.17	0.19	0.15	0.46	0.52	0.40
75 to 80	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.07	0.03	0.06	0.08	0.05	0.16	0.17	0.14
80 and upwards	0.03	0.04	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.10	0.10	0.09