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Movement of the Population for Ten Years. 



An increase to the amount of 588,976 persons is thus shown to have taken 

 place in ten years : and a more recent account proves the average annual 

 addition for the five years preceding 1828, to be at the rate of 10,982 per 

 million, outstripped the more thinly-peopled countries of Russia, Austria, 

 and France, whose annual increase respectively per million, Mr. Dupin says, 

 is 10,527, 10,114, and 6,530; though considerably behind Prussia, Great 

 Britain, and the Two Sicilies, which advance at the annual rates ot 27,027, 

 16,667, and 11,111, per million. The inhabitants of the Netherlands would 

 thus be doubled in 63 years; trebled in 100; quadrupled in 127; and quin. 

 tupled in 147 years; unless the causes which, according to Mr. Malthus's 

 theory, must have hitherto prevented the population doubling in 25 years, 

 should hereafter put a further check on its growth. 



Comparing the births and marriages in the Netherlands with those of their 

 neighbours, they appear to be more numerous ; while the deaths are about 

 equal to those of France, and exceed those of Great Britain in proportion of 

 3 to 2. The account stands thus : — 



Netherlands. France. 



to 



100 Births 

 100 Deaths - - 

 100 Marriages - 

 100 Marriages - 



2,807 Inhabitants - 3,168 



3,981 - - - - - 4,000 



13,150 ----- 13,490 



408 Births - - 426 



Great Britain. 



- - 3,554 



- - 5,780 



- - 13,333 



- - 359 



It is highly satisfactory to think that if Great Britain gives birth to a 

 smaller number of citizens, she preserves them better; a conclusion which 

 the healthiuess and cleanliness of our country readily induces us to adopt, 

 supported as it is by the above calculation, and by the tables of mortality 

 for various countries, which inform us that the probability of life (or the a°-e 

 at which the probability of living or not is the same) is, in the Netherlands 

 between 22 and 23: in France, between 20 and 21 ; in England, between 27 

 and 28; in Brandenburgh, between 25 and 26 ; and in Switzerland, at 41 

 years. We may, therefore, as a tolerablv safe rule to find the population of 

 the Netherlands, multiply the annual births by 28, and the deaths by 40 • 

 for that of France the births by 31£, and the deaths by 40; and for that of 

 Great Britain, the births by 35J, and the deaths by 58. 



According to the tables of mortality, it appears that at 40 years of age the 

 probable life is in Holland 26 years— at Amsterdam 22 for males and 25 for 

 females— and at Brussels 24; whilst in Paris it is 21— in Vienna and Berlin 



