ease in the native population owing to the varying areas of the
colony, but the natives have multiplied more rapidly than the whites;
the increase in the numbers of the last-named being due, in considerable
measure, to immigration. The whites who form about 25% of the total
population are in the proportion of 4 to 6 in the colony proper. The
great bulk of the people inhabit the coast region. The population is
densest in the south-west corner (which includes Cape Town, the capital)
where the white outnumbers the coloured population. Here in an area of
1711 sq. m. the inhabitants exceed 264,000, being 154 to the sq. m. The
urban population, reckoning as such dwellers in the nine largest towns
and their suburbs, exceeds 331,000, being nearly 25% of the total
population of the colony proper. Of the coloured inhabitants at the 1904
census 15,682 were returned as Malay, 8489 as Indians, 85,892 as
Hottentots,[2] 4168 as Bushmen and 6289 as Griquas. The Kaffir and
Bechuana tribes numbered 1,114,067 individuals, besides 310,720 Fingoes
separately classified, while 279,662 persons were described as of mixed
race. Divided by sex (including white and black) the males numbered
(1904) 1,218,940, the females 1,190,864, females being in the proportion
of 97.70 to 100 males. By race the proportion is:--whites, 82.16 females
to every 100 males (a decrease of 10% compared with 1891); coloured,
103.22 females to every 100 males. Of the total population over 14 years
old--1,409,975--the number married was 738,563 or over 50%. Among the
white population this percentage was only reached in adults over 17.

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| | Population (1904). |
+-------------------------+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+-------+
| | Area in | White. | Coloured. | Total. | Per |
| | sq. m. | | | | sq. m.|
+-------------------------+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+-------+
| Cape Colony Proper | 206,613 | 553,452 | 936,239 | 1,489,691 | 7.21 |
| British Bechuanaland | 51,424 | 9,368 | 75,104 | 84,472 | 1.64 |
| Native Territories | 18,310 | 16,777 | 817,867 | 834,644 | 45.50 |
| Walfish Bay and Islands | 648 | 144 | 853 | 977 | 1.50 |
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