116 Home Produce, Imports, Consumption , and 
Tlie Population, and the Requirement of Wheat per Head 
per Annum. 
Table XI. shows the average population for each of the 
eight-yearly periods, and for the total period of forty years, 
according to the corrected returns. The next three columns 
show, for comparison with the newly adopted results given in 
the last column — in the first the previously adopted estimates 
of annual requirement per head, assuming 80-77 imported flour 
to 100 wheat, and wheat at 61 lb. per bushel ; and in the second 
and third columns the amounts available per head on the as- 
sumption of the same relation of flour to wheat, but in the 
second reckoning home wheat at 61 lb. and foreign at 60§ lb. 
per bushel as hitherto, and in the third, for better comparison 
with the new results, taking both home and foreign at 60 lb. 
per bushel. The last column shows the total amounts available 
per head per annum from home and foreign sources together, on 
the assumption of 72 flour =100 wheat, and taking wheat at 
60 lb. per bushel. 
Table XI. 
Previously 
Total available per head 
Population 
estimated 
require- 
ment per 
head, 
80-77 flour 
= 100 
wheat ; 
wheat 
Cl lb. 
per bushel 
80-77 flour =100 
wheat 
72 flour 
= ICO 
Home 
61 lb. 
imported 
60§ lb. 
per 
bushel 
Home 
and 
imported 
60 lb. 
per 
bushel 
wheat : 
wheat 
CO lb. 
per 
bushel 
Bushels 
BusheH 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Averages for : — 
8 years 1852-3 to 1859-60 
28,067,170 
fi'10 
6-07 
5-1G 
519 
8 „ 1860-1 „ 1867-8 
29,738,375 
5 60 
6-47 
5-65 
5-60 
8 „ 1868-9 „ 1875-6 
31,943,230 
5-60 
5-56 
5-65 
5-69 
8 „ 1876-7 „ 1883-4 
34,615,019 
565 
5-66 
5-74 
5-83 
8 „ 1884-5 „ 1891-2 
36,950,178 
5-65 
5-72 
5-83 
5-92 . 
40 „ 1852-3 „ 1891-2 
32,262,794 
5-50 
5-50 
5-59 
565 
The first column of the Table (XI.) brings strikingly to view 
the rapid increase of the population in the United Kingdom 
during the last forty years. Comparing each eight-yearly 
period with the one preceding it, there was an increase over the 
second eight years of about If million; over the third period of 
nearly millions; over the fourth of 2§ millions; and over the 
fifth of 2f millions ; that is to say, the progression was the most 
rapid during the fourth period, and somewhat less over the 
