The following table, given in an article in "The Forum," December, 1899, by Mr. O. P. Austin, Chief of the United States Bureau of Statistics, shows the area, total population, foreign population, and imports and exports of the territory in Africa held by each European Government and by the independent States of that continent, at the time of its compilation so far as could be ascertained; but the statistics of area and population, especially the latter, are in many cases necessarily estimates: POP. TOTAL FOREIGN PER SQ. AREA. POPULATION. POPULATION MILE IMPORTS. EXPORTS. French Africa. 3,028,000 28,155,000 922,000 9.3 $70,116,000 $69,354,000 British Africa. 2,761,000 35,160,000 455,000 12.8 131,398,000 131,835,000 Turkish Africa. 1,760,000 21,300,000 113,000 12.2 54,091,000 62,548,000 German Africa. 944,000 11,270,000 4,000 12.0 4,993,000 2,349,000 Belgian Africa. 900,000 30,000,000 2,000 33.3 4,522,000 3,309,000 Portuguese Africa. 790,000 8,059,000 3,000 10.2 11,863,000 6,730,000 Spanish Africa. 243,000 36,000 … 0.5 … … Italian Africa. 188,000 850,000 … 4.5 … … Independent States. Morocco. 219,000 5,000,000 … 22.8 6,402,000 6,261,000 Abyssinia. 150,000 3,500,000 … 23.3 … … South African Republic. 120,000 1,096,000 346,000 9.2 104,703,000 53,532,000 Orange Free State. 48,500 208,000 78,000 4.3 5,994,000 8,712,000 Liberia. 48,000 1,500,000 25,000 31.3 1,217,000 1,034,000 Total. 11,189,500 146,133,000 1,948,000 … $395,299,000 $345,714,000