Egypt and the Christian crusade . ly the area of , According to the census of 1897, the popula-tion of Egypt was 9,734,405. Of these 9,020,-404 were Egyptians, 601,427 were Bedouins,and 112,574 were foreigners. Making compari-son with the previous census, that of 1882, thepopulation of Egypt is found to have in-creased on an average per cent, would make the present population ofEgypt 12,421,100, and there is every reason forbelieving that there has been this gain. Thepopulation of Egypt to-day (1907) may be con-sidered, therefore, to be about equal to the c
Egypt and the Christian crusade . ly the area of , According to the census of 1897, the popula-tion of Egypt was 9,734,405. Of these 9,020,-404 were Egyptians, 601,427 were Bedouins,and 112,574 were foreigners. Making compari-son with the previous census, that of 1882, thepopulation of Egypt is found to have in-creased on an average per cent, would make the present population ofEgypt 12,421,100, and there is every reason forbelieving that there has been this gain. Thepopulation of Egypt to-day (1907) may be con-sidered, therefore, to be about equal to the com-bined populations of Pennsylvania, Ohio, andIndiana, or about one-third the population ofFrance. For all details, however, concerningthe population of Egypt, we must revert to thecensus figures of 1897. The limited area of the country which is atall habitable, combined with the vastness of thepopulation, gives us a density of population un-equalled in America or in Europe, if indeedanywhere in the world. Egypt thus has 750 in-. The Country 9 habitants per square mile, as against 102 inOhio, 140 in Pennsylvania, 188 in France, 348in Massachusetts, 407 in Rhode Island, 589 inBelgium, and 552 in Bengal, the most thicklypopulated portion of India. The census of 1897 shows the sexes to bepretty well balanced, 50,83 per cent, being malesand per cent, being females. Thus ISTaturewould scarcely permit the liberal proportionof four wives to every man, which the Koranallows. Classified according to places of residence, wefind the larger proportion of the population liv-ing in towns and villages; about two-sevenths intowns and villages with less than a thousandinhabitants; about three-sevenths in towns ofone to five thousand inhabitants, and the rest incities of more than five thousand this is said, there is also need of empha-sizing the fact that the bulk of the population isengaged in agricultural pursuits. As in allOriental lands, however, farmers do not live
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