West Riding Poor Law/Registration County through time | Historical Statistics on Population

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Year	Population 10 years earlier	Current Total Population
1801		576,336
1811	576,336	663,236
1821	663,236	816,144
1831	816,144	993,869
1841	993,869	1,176,514
1851	1,176,514	1,340,051
1861		1,530,007
1871		1,854,172
1881	1,854,119	2,197,999
1891	2,197,985	2,464,415
1901	2,454,655	2,766,471
1911	2,766,471	3,044,608

Date	Source
1801 - 1851	1851 Census of Great Britain, Population tables 2, Table [1] , 'Population Abstract'
1861	1861 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 3 , 'Ages of Males and Females in Sub-Districts'
1871	1871 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 3 , 'Ages of Males and Females in Registrars' Sub-Districts'
1881	1881 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 4 , 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'
1891	1891 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 2 , 'Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes'
1901	1901 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 12 , 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'
1911	1911 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 5 , 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'

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The Registrar General's Decennial Supplements used five different classifications of causes of death over the six decades 1851-1910. Here we present a simplified overall classification developed by Graham Mooney of Johns Hopkins University. The 'Other' category is inevitably large but the main epidemic diseases are consistently reported.

West Riding Poor Law/Registration County : Total Population

Total Population