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352 ECONOMIC INQUIRIES AND STUfIES
Population of England at llu Date of eac" Census since I 800, wi'"
Percentage of Increase between each Census.

Increase per Cent.
Population.
since previous Censu~.
Mlns.
1800 8·9
'10 10.2 14·0
'20 12.0 18.1
'3 0 13·9 15·8
'40 15·9 14·5
'So 17·9 12·9
'60 20.1 11·9
'70 22·7 13. 2
'80 26.0 14·4
'90 29.0 11.6
1900 3 2.3 12.2
'Thus the increase between recent census periods
has been sensibly less than it was before 1850; and
the slight recovery between 1860 and 1880 has not
been maintained. We are thus in presence of much
the same kind of change as has been shown in the
United States and in Australasia.
It should be noted, however, in order that we may
not strain any fact, that when the United Kingdom is
viewed as a whole, Scotland and Ireland, as well as
the senior partner being taken into account, it cannot
be said that there is any falling off in the rate of
growth of the population since 1850. F or several
decades after that, in fact, the rate of growth of the
United Kingdom as a whole was diminished enormously
by the emigration from Ireland, and the growth since
1860 has been at a greater rate than in the thirty years
before. There may be new causes at work which wj))
again diminish the rate of growth, but in a broad view
they do not make themselves visible owing to the dis-
turbance caused by the Irish emigration. StilJ the facts
as to the United Kingdom as a whole ought not to
prevent us from considering the facts respecting Eng-
land only along with the similar facts respecting the
United States and Australasia.