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CONSUMPTION 



TABLE SHOWING THE ESTIMATED MEAT-CONSUMING POPULATIONS 

 OF VARIOUS REGIONS IN 1901 AND J911 AND THE 

 PERCENTAGE INCREASE. 



The most striking fact brought out by a study of these figures 

 is that the rates of increase;for all the newer regions outside Europe 

 are much greater than that for Europe. This fact is of added 

 significance when it is remembered that the per capita consumption 

 of meat and meat products in these regions is double that of the 

 average in Europe. 6 Moreover, the extra-European population 

 has considerable weight in the total since it accounted for about 

 134 millions out of a total of about 587 millions in 1911, that is 

 approximately 23%. Its absolute increase in the ten-year period 

 was sufficient to raise the European increase of 12J% to about 15% 

 for the whole meat-consuming population in the same period. 



The populations of Europe constitute the most important part 

 of the meat-consumers of the world, and it is necessary to examine 

 them by groups somewhat closely, so as to get a clearer view of 

 the final tendencies in consumption ; since the per capita con- 

 sumption of animal foodstuffs varies from group to group, the rates 

 of increase in the populations comprising these different groups 

 require to be noted also. 



1 Includes Russia (with Poland, Finland and Caucasia), Hungary, Roumania 

 and Bulgaria. 



2 Includes the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium and 

 Switzerland. 



' Includes Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. 



4 Includes the United States, Canada and Northern Mexico, for the last 

 of which an estimate of one-fifth of the population of Mexico has been taken. 



* Includes Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and coastal Brazil, for the first of 

 which again an estimate has been taken, together with Australasia and South 

 Africa (white population only). 

 See table, p. 205 below. 



