§ Mr. LYNCHasked the President of the Board of Trade what was the total loss of the British and Irish population, respectively, owing to emigration (i.e, the excess of Board of Trade emigrants over Board of Trade immigrants) in each of the last ten years ending with and including 1911; and what was the rate per 1,000 of such loss in each year in proportion to the population?
Mr. BUXTONThe excess of the number of passengers, described as British subjects, who left ports in the United Kingdom for countries out of Europe over the number of those who arrived in the United Kingdom from Countries out of Europe in each of the years 1902 to 1911 was as follows:—
Years. Excess of Passengers for, over Passengers from, Countries out of Europe (British Subjects only). Proportion of Excess of Outward Passengers to the Estimated Population of the United Kingdom. Per Thousand. 1902 … 101,547 2.4 1903 … 147,036 3.5 1904 … 126,854 3.0 1905 … 139,365 3.2 1906 … 194,671 4.5 1907 … 235[...]092 5.4 1908 … 91,156 2.1 1909 … 139,693 3.1 1910 … 233[...]709 5.2 1911 … 261,809 5.8