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Year
Total population
Percentage, + increase, or — decrease.

1890-1
2155

1900-1
2087
. — 3- 15 on the population of 1891*

1910-11
2317
+ 11-02 „ „
,, 1901.

1921-22
2097
- 9-49 „ „
,,1911.

1926-27
2560
f + 22*07 „ „
„ 1921.

or

1 + 18-8 „ „
99 99 1891»

The tendencies evident from the foregoing table are :
(i) Twice in the history of the village there was a de-
crease in the total population. It occurred first in the
decade 1890-1900 and subsequently in the decade 1911-
1921.
(ii) The quinquennium ending with the year of enquiry
reveals an abnormal increase of 22.07 per cent, in the
population over that of 1901.
(Hi) In spite of variations, the net increase in the size
of the population during the last 37 years is 18.8 per
cent.
Causes of variations in the size of the population : The
first question is, what are the causes of these variations
in the size of the population at different censuses ? An
enquiry into this aspect throws considerable light on the
part played by birth and death rates on the one hand and
migration on the other.
Birth and Death rates : We shall first consider the role
played by the former. The inadequacy and imperfect-
ness of data need not be too often repeated. Luckily in
this case, we could lay our hands on registers of births
and deaths, however indifferently written, from 1892.
We believe that the statistics of births and deaths since
1914 are fairly accurate. The following table based on
statistics of births and deaths, gives in a summarised form
the total number of births and deaths that occurred since
1892 up to date :