Observations on the statistics of Van Diemen's Land for 1849 : compiled from official records in the Colonial Secretary's Office

Although the census of 1847 has been already illustrated on two previous occasions ;* yet, as the same returns are included in the present volume, and form the groundwork for the "Statistics of 1849," it becomes necessary again to place on record an analysis of the group of tables which refer to the population of the colony.
By table 1 it appears that the grand total of the population of Van Diemen's Land on the 31st December 1847 was 70,164. Of these 68.16 per cent, were males, and 31.84 females.