§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDY (Cavan, W.)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Ex chequer if he will state the average annual income of Great Britain and Ireland, respectively, for the years 1820 to 1827
†See (4) Debates, Clxxiii., 1052–3.508 and 1900 to 1907, with the population of the two countries for those years.(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) All estimates of national income, in the sense of the total aggregate income of the inhabitants of a country, which I take it is what the hon. Member has in mind, are extremely speculative; and I cannot pretend to give an official estimate even for the later period. As regards the earlier period any calculation would be still more conjectural. The population of Great Britain at the census of 1821 was 14.091,757, and that of Ireland 6,801,827. At the Census of 1901 the population of Great Britain was 36,999,946, and of Ireland 4,458,775.