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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
1. England and Wales. The census population of England and Wales 1801 to 1911 :—
Date of Enumeration
1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851
Population
8,892,536 10,164,256 12,000,236 13,896,797 15,914,148 17,927,609
Pop. per sq. mile
152 174 206
238 273 307
Date of Enumeration
1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Population
20,066,224 22,712,266 25,974,439 29,002,525 32,527,843 136,070,492
Pop. per sq. mile
344
389 445 497
558 618
Poxmlation of England and Wales and of the Administrative Counties and County Boroughs in 1901 and 1911.
Area in
Statute
Acres
(Land and
Inland
Water.)
Population.
Increase (+) or Decrease ( - ) per cent, between 1901
1901.
191L
and 1911.
Administrative Counties:—
England.
Bedfordshire ....
302,942
171,707
194,588
+ 18-3
Berkshire ....
456,491
180,354
195,811
+ 8-6
Buckinghamshire
479,300
197,046
219,551
+ 11-4
Cambridgeshire .
315,168
120,264
128,322
+ 6-7
Isle of Ely . . .
238,073
64,495
69,752
+ 8-2
Cheshire ....
644,172
593,885
676,275
+ 13-9
Cornwall ....
868,167
322,334
328,098
+ 1-8
Cumberland.
973,086
266,933
265,746
- 0-4
Derbyshire ....
645,097
484,846
560,013
+15-5
Devonshire ....
1,662,672
436,938
457,831
+ 4.7
Dorsetshire ....
625,612
202,063
223,260
+10-5
Durham ....
637,672
768,024
929,214
+ 21-0
Essex ....
974,849
816,640
1,061,851
+30-0
Gloucestershire .
786,016
321,442
329,014
+ 2-4
Herefordshire .
53S;,924
114,125
114,269
+ 0-1
Hertfordshire
404,523
258,423
311,284
+ 20-5
Huntingdonshire.
233,985
54,125
55,577
+ 2-7
Kent ....
971,991
936,240
1,020,965
+ 9-0
Lancashire .
1,066,529
1,578,145
1,739,320
+10-2
Leicestershire
524,197
225,911
249,331
+ 10-4
Lincolnshire —
The parts of Holland
268 992
77,610
82,849
+ 6-S
The parts of Kesteven
465,878
103 962
111,324
+ 7-1
The parts of Lindsey
963,800
1 206,528
237,843
+15-2
London
74.816
- 4,536,267
4,521,685
- 0-3
Middlesex .
148,701
1 792,476
1,126,465
+42-1
Monmouthshire .
345,048
1 230,806
312,028
. +35-2
Norfolk
1,303.570
! 311,315
321,733
+ 3-3
Northamptonshire
581,679
1 207,485
213,734
+ 3-0
Soke of Peterborough
53,464
41,122
44.718
-1- 8-7
Northumberland
l,278,fi91
1 304,730
371,474
+21-9
Nottinghamshire
529,188
i 274,716
344,194
+25-3
Oxfordshire
475,968
! 137,124
146,221
+ 6-6
Rutlandshire
97,273
I 19.709
20,846
+ 3-2
Shropshire .
861,800
1 239,783
246,307
+ 2-7
