The World's City Population
By S. A. CARNAHAN
A few statistics, based upon the census of 1900, showing where the people of the world dwell, may be of interest. One third of the population of the United States lives in cities; while one fourth is in fourteen cities. Of South America's population, one fourteenth is in ten cities; and thirty cities contain one tenth. Three cities contain one sixth of the inhabitants of Australia. One sixth of Central America's population is found in twelve cities; and nearly one eleventh of Mexico's in five cities. About one ninth of Africa's benighted souls lives in seven cities. Nearly one fifteenth of Egypt's population is crowded into two cities. On the continent of Europe about eight and one-third per cent of her human beings are found in eighty of her largest cities, with an average of 365,325 persons each. In Great Britain and Ireland, fifteen cities contain over ten million souls, or over twenty-four per cent of the entire population. Nine cities in British India have nearly one and one-half per cent of one sixth of the population of the world. The remainder of Asia has in twenty-eight large cities an average of over 388,000, or one and two-thirds per cent of its six hundred eleven million souls. By the above we see what must be done for the cities. From them goes to the rural districts the news of all great movements. Besides, in all these cities are to be found honest souls who will respond to the truths of God's Word.