COMPARATIVE TABLES.
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! colspan="5" | DENSITY OF POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES
AND TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS OF THE WORLD.
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! States and Territorial
Divisions
! Census
Year
! Population
! Area,
English
sq. miles
! Population per
square mile
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|style="text-align:left;" | Belgium ||1866 ||4,839,094 ||11,267 ||430
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|style="text-align:left;" |England and Wales ||1861 ||20,066,224 ||58,320 ||347
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|style="text-align:left;" |Saxony ||1867 ||2,423,586 ||6,777 ||346
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|style="text-align:left;" |Netherlands ||1865 ||3,735,682 ||13,464 ||285
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|style="text-align:left;" |China ||1812 ||367,632,907 ||1,297,999 ||283
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|style="text-align:left;" |Gt. Britain and Ireland ||1861 ||29,321,288 ||119,924 ||253
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|style="text-align:left;" |Würtemberg ||1867 ||1,778,479 ||7,675 ||234
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|style="text-align:left;" |Italy ||1862 ||24,273,776 ||107,961 ||225
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|style="text-align:left;" |Germany ||1867 ||38,514,046 ||206,511 ||186
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|style="text-align:left;" |Ireland ||1861 ||5,798,967 ||31,874 ||181
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|style="text-align:left;" |France ||1866 ||38,067,094 ||207,480 ||177
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|style="text-align:left;" |Prussia ||1867 ||24,106,847 ||137,066 ||176
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|style="text-align:left;" |British India ||1865-6 ||155,348,090 ||910,853 ||170
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|style="text-align:left;" |Bavaria ||1867 ||4,824,421 ||29,347 ||166
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|style="text-align:left;" |Switzerland ||1860 ||2,510,494 ||15,233 ||165
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|style="text-align:left;" |Austria ||1869 ||35,943,592 ||227,234 ||158
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|style="text-align:left;" |Denmark ||1870 ||1,783,565 ||14,553 ||110
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|style="text-align:left;" |Scotland ||1861 ||3,062,294 ||30,685 ||101
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|style="text-align:left;" |Portugal ||1865 ||3,987,867 ||36,510 ||99
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|style="text-align:left;" |Spain ||1860 ||16,301,850 ||182,758 ||90
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|style="text-align:left;" |Greece ||1861 ||1,332,508 ||19,941 ||66
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|style="text-align:left;" |Turkey ||Estimate ||35,350,000 ||1,812,048 ||20
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|style="text-align:left;" |Sweden and Norway ||1865-7 ||5,897,046 ||291,903 ||19
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|style="text-align:left;" |United States ||1870 ||38,272,112 ||2,819,811 ||14
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|style="text-align:left;" |Russia ||1858 ||73,920,000 ||7,210,374 ||10
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|style="text-align:left;" |Mexico ||1857 ||7,995,426 ||1,030,442 ||7
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|style="text-align:left;" |Persia ||Estimate ||4,400,000 ||648,000 ||6
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|style="text-align:left;" |Brazil ||Estimate ||11,780,000 ||4,891,394 ||2
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