THE LI8K«HT f CONGRESS SERIAl fifCOK DEC 1 943 .— «OVT. 0 W I POPULATION SURVEY OF THE WORLD 1 (Excluding the Western Hemisphere) October 1942 Prepared by /T0 76/ PauI M. Hancock * Media Analysis Department, Foreign Language Section , Office of War Information. <9 § New York r ^4 2J ys%$( METHODOLOGY In compiling the OWI Population Survey, the following method¬ ’S'/va ology was employed: I. The principal -sources consulted for statistics on population were: 1) Most recent census reports, consulates and foreign government agencies. 2) Standard statistical publications and reference works including The Statesman's Year-Book, 1942 Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations, 1940-41 Population Index National Catholic Almanac, 1942 Huebner's "Weltstatistik, 1939" and other statistical abstracts. 3) More detailed information for specific territories was obtained from the following: Pelzer, Karl J., "Population and Land Utilization" Lattimore, Owen, "Inner Asian Frontiers of China" Keesing, Felix M., "The South Seas in the • Modern World" Chinese Yearbook, 1938-39 Japanese Yearbook, 1941 Official Yearbook of the Union of South Africa, 1941 and other official handbooks. II. The methodology employed for arriving at populations varies accord¬ ing to the country covered. If an actual census was taken in any year since 1939, that figure has been used. If no official estimate was available for any year since 1940, an estimate has been calcu¬ lated on the basis of the average yearly rate of increase since the previous census. In this computation two factors are involved, either a) inter-censal rates of increase, or b) vital statistics (birth and death rates). All figures have been rounded out to the nearest thousand. III. In regard to the occupied countries of Europe, Statistics refer to the pre-war populations as of 1939, except in the case of certain countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Lithuania, Rumania, Yugoslavia), as indicated in the footnotes. ff.B. An asterisk (*) denotes an estimate based on the general consensus of a number of competent authorities and references consulted. -1- I BRITISH ISLES Eire 2.990,000 (1) United Kingdom 47,900,000 (2) Channel Islands 95,000 England 39,063,000 Isle of Man 50,000 Northern Ireland 1,312,000 Scotland 5,039,000 Wales 2,486,000 (1) Preliminary results, Census of November 19A1. (2) Official estimate - 19A1 II WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE Belgium 8,390,000 (1) Czechoslovakia 15,250,000 (2) France 41,945.000 (3) Andorra 6,000 Corsica 330,000 Monaco 24,500 Free City of Danzig 410,000 Gibraltar 20,000 Greater Germany 79,530,000 (4) German Reich 69,317,000 Austria 6,650,000 Sudetenland 3,408,000 Memel 155,000 Hungary 9,275,000 (5) Italy 44,400,000 (6) San Marino 15,000 Sardinia 1,043,000 Sicily 4,045,000 Liechtenstein 12,000 Luxembourg 305,000 Netherlands 8,923,000 (7) Poland 35,339,000 (8) Portugal 7,166,000 (9) Azores 287,000 Madeira 249,000 Spain 25,568,000 (10) Balearic Islands 392,000 Switzerland 4,258,000 (11) (1) Official estimate - December 194-0. Includes 41 communes of Eu.pen and Malmedy. (2) Approximate population as of October l, 1938. (3) Estimate - September 1939. Population figures for France (exclud¬ ing Alsace-Lorraine) based on April 1941 registration for rationing cards were: Occupied Area 25,071,000 Unoccupied Area 14,232,000 (4) Figures represent census of Man 1939, excepting Kernel, which is for December 1939. (5) Approximate population as of October 1. 1938. (6) Official estimate - April 1941. Figures exclude the four provinces of Libua (Tripoli, Misuratd, Benghazi and Derna) which were in¬ corporated in italu bu decree, January 1939. (7) Official estimate - December 1940. (8) Official estimate - September 1, 1939. (9) Preliminary results, Census of December 1940 for continental Por¬ tugal only. (10) Census of December 1940, excluding Canary Islands. (11) Preliminary results, Census of December 1941.. -3- III SCANDINAVIA Denmark 3,887,000 Faroe Islands 26.000 Finland 3,753,000 (1) Greenland 18,500 Iceland 122,000 Norway 2,967,000 Sweden 6,406,000 (2) (1) Estimate - January 1942. Computed on basis of average annual rate of increase of 0.69%. (2) Official estimate - January 194.2. IV BALTIC STATES Estonia 1,122,000 (1) Latvia 1,951,000 (1) Lithuania 2,575,000 (2) (1) Official estimate - December 1939. (2) Official estimate - September 1941. Last population census taken in September 1923. Includes territory of Kernel, but not district of Wilno which was ceded to Lithuania by U.S.S.R. in October 1939. -4- V BALKANS Albania 1.064,000 Bulgaria 6,357,000 (1) Dodecanese Islands 125,000 (2) Greece 7,201,000 (3) Crete 442,000 Rumania 20,045,000 (4) Yugoslavia 15,920,000 (5) (1) Official estimate - December 1940. Exclusive of Southern Dobrudja and other territories annexed to Bulgaria as a result of treaties and militaru occupations. (2) Excluding military forces, December 1939. (3) A census was taken in the spring of 1938, official preliminary re¬ turns indicating a total population of 9,007,000. An announcement of this census was released to the press in September 1940. On account of the Italian invasion no statistics could be published. (4) Official estimate - December 1939, including all territories subse¬ quently ceded to Bulgaria, Hungary, and U.S.S.R. (5) Official estimate - December 1940. -5- VI UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ♦ Total Population 170,467,200 (1) Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic 109,279,000 (2) Armenian S.S.R. 1,282,000 Azerbaijan S.S.R. 3,210,000 Georgian S.S.R. 3,542,000 Kazak S.S.R. 6,146,000 Kirghiz S.S. R. 1,459,000 Tadzhik S.S.R. 1,485,000 Turkmen S.S.R. 1,254,000 Ukrainian S.S.R. 30,960,000 Uzbek S.S.R. 6,282,000 White Russian S.S.R. 5,568,000 (1) Preliminary returns, Census of January 1939. (2) Includes the following areas administered either directly or in¬ directly from Moscow: a) Territories: Azov-Black Sea, Par East, Krasnnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Nest Siberia: b) Regions: Chelyabinsk, East Siberia, Gorku, Ivanovo, Kalinin, Kirov, Kuibyshev, Kursk., Leningrad, Moscow, Voronezh, Western, Yaroslavl ; c) Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics: Bashkir, Buryat-Mongolia, Chechen-Ingush. Chuvash, Crimea, Daghestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmyck, Komi, Morii, Mordva, North Osetia, Tatar, Udmurt, Volga German, Yakut: and d) Autonomous Regions: Adyaei, Cherkess, Jewish, Karachayev, Khakass, Oirat. -6- VII NORTH AFRICA Algeria 8,117.700 (1) Canary Islands 654,000 (2) Libya 900,000* Malta 270,000 Morocco, French 6,790,000 (3) Morocco, Spanish 845,000 (4) Rio de Oro and Ifni 40,000* Tangier 90,000* Tunisia 2,845,000 (5) (1) Estimate, March 1942, based on postcensal rate of increase of 2% per annum. 1 2 3 4 5 (2) Census of December 1940. (3) Estimate, March 1942, based on annual rate of increase since 1936 Census of 1.31%. (4) Estimate, December 1941. (5) Estimate, March 1942, based on annual rate of increase of 1,58%. -7- VIII WEST AFRICA (1) Angola 4,500,000* Belgian Congo 10.435,000* Ruanda-Urundi 3,800,000* Cameroons, French 2,650,000 Cape Verde Islands 174,000 Fernando Po and Islands 40,000 French Equatorial Africa 3,500,000* Chad 1,463,000 Gabon 420,000 Middle Congo 764,000 Ubangi-Shari 853,000 French West Africa 15,780,000* Dahomey 1,376,000 Dakar and dependencies 95,000 French Guinea 2,050,000 French Sudan 3,642.000 Ivory Coast 3,980,000 Mauretania 391,000 Niger 1,782,000 Senegal 1,683,000 Togo 780,000 Gainbia 205,000 Gold Coast 3,750.000* Togoland 391,000 Liberia 1,900,00 (2) Nigeria 22,000,000* British Cameroons 869,000 Portuguese Guinea 420,000* Sao Tome & Principe Islands 50,000* Sierra Leone 2,000,000* Spanish Guinea (Rio Muni) 153,000 (1) To a large extent, population figures for West Africa are more or less hypothetical. No reliable enumeration of the natives has ever been conducted, and therefore these figures are mostly rough esti¬ mates. An attempt has been made to bring the population estimates up-to-date, using as a basis latest colonial census reports for British (1931), French (1936), and Portuguese (193A) possessions. (2) Official estimate of Liberian Government. Other estimates vary 1 to 3 mill ions. ■ -8- IX SOUTH AFRICA Basutoland 619,000 (1) Bechuanaland 283,000 (1) Southwest Africa 346,000 (1) Swaziland 164,000 (1) Union of South Africa 10,707,000 (2) Cape of Good Hope 3,825,000 Natal 2,152,000 Orange Free State 826,000 Transvaal 3,904,000 (1) Estimate, July 1942. (2) Estimate, July 1942. Calculated basis of average annual rate of increase of 1.77%. X EAST AFRICA Amirante and Seychelle Islands 33,000 Kenya 3,600,000* Madagascar 3,846,000 (1) Mauritius 423,000 Mozambique 4,580,000* Nyasaland 1,700,000 (2) Reunion 212,000 Rhodesia, Northern 1,400,000* Rhodesia, Southern 1,450,000* Ruanda-Urundi 3,800,000* Tanganyika 5,300,000* Uganda 3,850,000* Zanzibar and Pemba Islands 250,000 (1) rnudm basis l9filvelrVUdm TUOtte and the Comoro iBlmda. Com- (2) EsttuZ Decider Zl inCreaSe °f °'21% SlnCe 1936 CenSUS■ -9- XI NEAR EAST Anglo-Egyptain Sudan 6,500,000* Arabia 10,000,000 (1) Aden Protectorate 650,000 Aden and Perim 50,000* Kuria Muria Islands 2,500* Socotra Island 15,000* Kuwait 50,000 Oman and Trucial Oman 580,000 Qatar 25,000 Saudi Arabia 5,500,000 Asir 1,000,000 Hadhramaut 120,000 Ne jaz 1,500,000 Nejd 3,000,000 Yemen 3,500,000 Bahrein Islands 120,000 Cyprus 382,000 Egypt 16,795,000 (2) Eritrea 700,000* Ethiopia 8,500,000 (3) Iran (Persia) 15,000,000* Iraq 3,800,000 Lebanon 1,216,000 (4) Palestine 1,650,000 (5) Somaliland, British 350,000* Somaliland, French 50,000* Somaliland, Italian 1,300,000* Syria 2,696,000 (6) Latakia 410,000 Jebel Druze 68,000 Trans-Jordan 300,000* ■ Turkey 17,870,000 (7) (1) The figures inserted for Arabia are very rough estimates, but re¬ present the combined opinions of leading Arabicists.