Population.

By the April, 1891 census the population was 636,568.

There were 38,000 more males than females.

Between 1871 and 1881 the population doubled.

Foot towns and their suburbs exceed 33,000 inhabitants.

The largest are Auckland, 51,987; Christchurch, 47,846 Dunedin, 45,855; Wellington, 33,224.

The average number of children in a New Zealand family is 4.87, and in England 4.16.

Only about one-quarter of the men in New Zealand are married.

In 1891 there were upwards of 18,000 births, equal to 29 per thousand of the population.