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THE IMPORTj.NCE OF GENER.AL STATISTICAL IDEAS 35 I

Supplementary Table oj Rate pe, Cent. oj I'lcrease lince 18 90.
Per Cent. Per Cent.
1891 3·34 1896 1.84
'93 . 2.10 '97 1.86
'9 2
'98
1.96
1·40
'94 1·95 '99 1·44
'95 1.88
The decline in the rate of increase is so great and
palpable as to need no comment.
Here the perturbations due to immigration have
obviously been greater than in the case of the United
States. The country was in fact settled mainly between
1850 and 1870, without previously having had a popu-
lation to speak of. But deducting immigration, the
increase would appear to have been as follows in each
decade:

Rat, oj IncreaSlpe, Cent. oj PopUlation in Australasia, .Deaucting
Immigration, in tlu unaermentionea Periods.
Per Cent. Per Cent.
1851-60 • 4 .5 • 24·S
8
'60-70 • • 3 • . 16.0
0 0
'70-80 • 25. 0
or course, so long as immigration continues, the
effect is to swell indirectly the natural increase of popu-
lation, so that the large increases here shown between
1851 and 1870, and even down to 1890, may be
accounted for in part as the indirect result of the large
immigration that was going on. But whatever the
cause, the fact is unmistakable that the rate of increase,
apart from the direct immigration, has declined just as
it has done in the United States.
There has been a similar though not nearly so
marked a decrease in England, at any rate if we carry
the comparison back to the period before 1850. The
population at each census period since 1800 in England,
with the percentage increase between each census
period, has been as follows: