428 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



sions in the deaths at such a number as will 

 make the excess of the births above the deaths in 

 the ten years accord with the increase of popula- 

 tion estimated by the increase of the births. 



The registered births in the ten years, as was 

 mentioned before, are 2,878,906, which increased 

 by one-6th will be 3,358,723. The registered 

 burials are 1,950,189, which increased by one- 

 12th will be 2,112,704. The latter subtracted 

 from the former will give 1,246,019 for the ex- 

 cess of births, and the increase of population in 

 the ten years, which number added to 9,287,000, 

 the corrected population of 1800, will give 

 10,533,019, forty-five thousand above the enu- 

 meration of 1810, leaving almost exactly the num- 

 ber which in the course of the ten years appears to 

 have died abroad. This number has been cal- 

 culated generally at about 4-^ per cent, on the 

 male births ; but in the present case there are the 

 means of ascertaining more accurately the number 

 of males dying abroad during the period in ques- 

 tion. In the last population returns the male and 

 female births and deaths are separated ; and from 

 the excess of the male births above the female 

 births, compared with the male and female deaths, 

 it appears that forty-five thousand males died 

 abroad.* 



* See Population Abstracts, 1811, page 196 of the Parish 

 Register Abstract. 



It is certainly very extraordinary that a smaller proportion of 

 males than usual should appear to have died abroad from 1800 



