================================================================ Number Number Entire Number of of male of female population women for persons persons every 1000 men ---------------------------------------------------------------- Europe 170,818,561 174,914,119 345,732,680 1,024 America 41,643,389 40,540,386 82,183,775 973 Asia 177,648,044 170,269,179 347,917,223 958 Australia 2,197,799 1,871,821 4,069,620 852 Africa 6,994,064 6,771,360 13,765,425 968 ------------------------------------------------------- 399,301,857 394,366,865 793,668,722 988 The result of this compilation may, to many people, be a surprising one. With the exception of Europe where there are, on an average, 1,024 female inhabitants for every 1000 male inhabitants, the male population predominates. Even if we may assume that the information is incomplete, especially in regard to the female sex, and that especially in countries with a Mohammedan population the female population surpasses the given figures, the fact remains that, except in a few European countries, the female population nowhere considerably exceeds the male population. In the meantime the imperial bureau of statistics in Berlin has published a new compilation of the census in European and non-European countries which includes 883,000,000 people. “When we take into consideration the census, not included in this compilation, of Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Argentine Republic, the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cyprus, Formosa and Pescadores, the number of enumerated inhabitants of the earth attains 882,000,000 with a general average of 991 female persons for every 1000 male persons. For the enumerated population of the earth we may therefore assume an almost equal representation of both sexes with a slight preponderance of the male.”[76]