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THE RELATIVE GROWTH OF TIlE EMPIRE 223
United Kingdom and the Colonies," the co Colonial
Office List," and the II Statesman's Year-book." The
ordinary figures are simply rearranged under divisions
to bring out the main features of the Empire as they
appear in a general survey, and to show where, and of
what nature, the increase has been.

The Empire, as thus viewed, is a territory of
11,500,000 square miles,'or 13,000,000, if we include
Egypt and the Soudan, which have been added pour
til/moire to the Tables; and in this territory there is a
population of about 407,000,000, which would be in-
creased to over 420,000,000 if Egypt and the Soudan
were included-a population about one-fourth of the
whole population of the earth. Of this population
again, about 50,000,000 are of English speech and
race, the ruling race-in the United Kingdom, in
British North America and in Australasia; and the re-
maining 350.000,000 to 370,000,000 are the various
subject races, for the most part in India and Africa,
the proportion of the governing to the subject races
being thus about one-eighth. (South Africa is an ex-
ception, being self-governing, with a white minority in
power, but with the black subjects greatly predominat-
ing in numbers.)
The increase in area and population in this Empire,
again, excluding Egypt and the Soudan, amounts, since
1871, to 2,854,000 square miles of area, or more than
one-fourth of the whole. and to 125.000,000 of popu-
lation, which is also more than one-fourth of the whole.
The increase of the ruling race included in this popu-
lation amounts to about 12,500,000, or about one-
fourth of the number in 1897; and the increase in the
subject races is 112,000,000. or nearly one-third the
numbers in 1897. The increase in these subject races
is largely, but by no means exclusively, due to annex·-
adon. .
The present revenue of the different parts of this
Empire added together amounts to £257,653,000, and