FROM THE NOTEBOOK“AUSTRIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS”, ETC.

DISTRIBUTION OF COLONIES
AMONG THE IMPERIALIST STATES

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Otto Hübner, Geographical-Statistical Tables, 1916 , and The Statesman’s Year-Book , 1916 (=St.) (figures from Hübner).

EASTERN EUROPE AND ITS PART OF ASIA

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1) In Hübner included in Asia and given separately. In St. it is included in Greece.

semi-colonies (7 countries)

2) Kiao-chow—0.5 and 192,000 + Tientsin—0.1 and 17,000

4) In British India in 1911 there were more than 100 ethnic groups; out of 313.3 million—74 per cent Aryan Indians.

Africa

3) Hübner includes Sinai in Asia, Thasos in Europe and does not regard Egypt as a “British possession”. St . puts Egypt as a British possession.

2) Data for 1881.

1) Hübner adds also “Thasos (to Egypt)”. I include it in Egypt, in Africa. (3) In Belgium, 43.4% spoke only Flemish and 38.1% only French. Ergo, approximately: 43.4% of 81.5=53.2% Flemings in the population.

| Western Europe |
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| 17—5 midget=12 |
| Of which, without colonies (9, 11, 17) i.e. 3 |
| 9 with colonies |
| In 1876 (1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 17) i.e. 6 were without colonies |
| 6 with colonies |
| No colonies: | Sweden | 5.6 | million | population |
| | Denmark | 2.9 | ” | ” |
| | Norway | 2.3 | ” | ” |
| | Switzerland | 3.8 | ” | ” |
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| | | |
| | | 14.6 |

| | British possessions | 8,962 | 10,431 [1] |
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| ⎧ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ | Canada | 8,528 | 8,075 | ⎫ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎬ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎭ | British | since | 1763 |
| | | | 54% Britons |
| | | | 28.5% French |
| | | | 1.5% Indians |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 129 | 245 | British | since | 1713 |
| West Indies | 32 | 1,752 | Jamaica |
| | | | Spanish | since | 1494 |
| | | | British | ” | 1659 |
| Guiana | 234 | 305 | Dutch | ” | 1667 |
| | | | British | ” | 1803 |
| Honduras | 22 | 41 | British | ” | 1786 |
| Falkland Islands and Bermuda | 17 | 24 | Falklands British since 1833 |
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| | French possessions | 91 | 460 | | French 1674 |
| | Dutch ” | 130 | 141 | | Dutch 1667 |

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(*) 1566=beginning of the Dutch revolution.

Whole world:

| | | Sq. km. (000) | Popula- tion (000) | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asia | 44,450 | 874,928 |
| Europe | 9,977 | 459,261 |
| Africa | 29,888 | 136,438 |
| America | 39,977 | 192,873 |
| Australia | 8,954 | 7,865 |
| Polar regions | 12,669 | 15 |
| Whole world | 145,917 | 1,671,380 | (1916) Colonies (population in thousands)

| | Eu- rope | Asia | Africa | Aus- tralia | Amer- ica | Total | had no colonies in 1871 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Great Britain | 250 | 324,879 | 51,660 | 6,675 | 10,421 | 393,895 |
| France | — | 17,267 | 38,500 | 81 | 460 | 56,508 [4] | 6,000 in 1876 |
| Holland | — | 37,717 | — | 240 141 | 38,098 |
| Portugal | — | 980 | 8,352 | — | — | 9,332 |
| Germany | — | 209 | 11,527 | 641 | — | 12,377 | — |
| U.S.A. | — | 8,938 | — | 228 | 1,247 | 10,413 | — |
| Japan | — | 19,687 | — | — | — | 19,687 | — |
| Denmark | — | — | — | — | 27 | 27 |
| Belgium | — | — | 15,003 | — | — | 15,003 | — |
| Italy | — | — | 1,368 | — | — | 1,368 | — |
| Spain | — | — | 589 | — | — | 589 |

| Total colonies | = | 557 | million | | Including | India | = | 320 | million |
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| Semi-colonies | = | 366 | ” | | ” | China | = | 330 | ” |
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| Together | | 923 | ” | | China + India | | 650 | ” |

Denmark has now (December 1916) dropped out of the list of colonial countries (? but Iceland [akin by nationality]).

| Out of 10 countries with colonies, five acquired them only after 1871. | | | N.B. |

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Diagrammatic picture of the division of the world (in relation to national development)

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Notes:
[1] So given by Hübner.— Ed .

[2] See p. 718 of this volume.— Ed .

[3] Ibid., pp. 713-14.— Ed .

[4] So given in the MS.— Ed .

[5] See p. 271 of this volume.— Ed .

[6] Ibid., p. 269.— Ed .

[7] “ Punti ”—the Chinese name for the indigenous inhabitants of the southern provinces of China. In Hübner’s tables, from which Lenin made extracts, “Punti” were erroneously given as a separate nationality.

[8] Karafuto —the Japanese name for the southern part of Sakhalin.