The World's Population

Hubner's stattetical and geographieal tables, as a result of the latest investigations, give the population of the world at 1,536,000,000. This is an increase over the figures of 1896 of 23,000,000. To this increase Europe is credited witli contributing 5,700,000; Asia, 6,200,000; África, 7,500,000; America, 3,200,000. The United States, with its great growth, estimated by this authority at 2,800,000, and its present population placed at 72,300,000, represents more than 53 per cent of entire population of North and South America. - a circumstance adduced as highly significant, and occurring in no other parts of the earth. The population of Europe was increased to 378,600,000, which is about a quarter of the entire population of the earth.