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MAN THE ANIMAL 



figures, as well as counts and legitimate short intercensal extra- 

 polations from counts. If we deal only with those countries (or 

 other political subdivisions) for each of which there are avail- 

 able data from which a separate individual growth rate can be 

 computed — 134 "items" at the 1934 revision, 140 "items" at 

 the 1935 revision, and 158 "items" at the 1937 revision, each 



Table 4 



Recent world population growth-rates for those countries only for which the 

 necessary data are separately available 



Information 



Area (sq. miles) 



Percentage of total world 

 area 



Latest population (in thou- 

 sands) 



Percentage of total world 

 population 



Mean date for latest popu- 

 lation 



Earlier population (in thou- 

 sands) 



Mean date for earlier popu- 

 lation 



Mean annual growth-rate 

 percent 



Length of period (years) on 

 which rate is computed . . 



1934 



revision 



38,095,193 



73.1 

 1,421,293.2 

 69.3 

 1930.42 

 1,276,299.5 

 1920.45 

 1.14 

 9.97 



1935 

 revision 



1936 

 revision 



38,369,596 



74.2 

 1,465,646.5 

 70.7 

 1931.89 

 1,326,170.8 

 1924.06 

 1.34 

 7.83 



40,478,875 



78.5 

 1,524,340.3 

 73.9 

 1932.95 

 1,393,842.3 

 1925.39 

 1.24 

 7.56 



1937 

 revision 



42,502,783 



82.7 

 1,577,307.8 

 74.9 

 1934.87 

 1,465,280.3 

 1928.01 

 1.11 

 6.86 



"item" being a country or political subdivision — ^the results 

 shown in Table 4 are obtained. 



It is evident from the second and fourth lines of this table 

 that the areas and populations included here are substantial 

 percentages of the world totals. Furthermore the figures include 

 none of the very doubtful data (particularly those for China) 

 necessarily embodied in the earlier table. On these two grounds 

 of large proportionate size of sample and relatively greater 

 reliability of the data it is reasonably to be expected that the 

 growth rates of the table before you probably represent more 



