: POPULATION OF THE GLOBE. HE population of various countries of the globe, but particularly of the countries of Europe, is a question that is constantly coming up in connection with the amounts of the precious metals available for use as money. In regard to Asia, containing more than half the entire population of the world, there is even yet comparatively little definite information, but on the whole the knowledge of the distribution of the world's inhabitants has been greatly improved in the last quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago the commonly accepted estimate was one thousand millions, but a recent estimate by Dr. Wagner (of which a synopsis was printed in the Bankers' Magazine for May, 1875,) places the estimate for the total at 1,391,032,000. 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