Sixty-five persons out of one thousand marry. The months of June and December are those in which marriages are most frequent.
Children born in spring are generally stronger than those born in other seasons.
Births and deaths chiefly occur at night.
The number of men able to bear arms is but one-eighth of the population.
AFRICANS IN AMERICA.
It is estimated that there are some 14,580,000 persons of African descent on this continent. In the United States they number 4,880,000; Brazil 4,200,000; Cuba and Porto Rico 1,500,000; South and Central American Republics 1,100,000; Hayti 1,350,000; British Possessions 800,000; French, 250,000; Dutch and Mexican 400,000.
CREEDS OF THE WORLD.
The population of the world is religiously distributed very nearly in the following proportions:
| Christians | 388,600,000 |
| Buddhists | 360,000,000 |
| Other Asiatic religions | 260,000,000 |
| Pagans | 200,000,000 |
| Mohammedans | 165,000,000 |
| Jews | 7,000,000 |
In Europe, America, Australia, and many of the Polynesian Islands, Christianity is the prevailing creed of every State. In Africa the only independent Christian States are Abyssinia and Liberia, while Christianity prevails in several European colonies. The largest empire of Asia—Russia—is also a Christian country. India, the third country in point of extent, is under the rule of a Christian government, and so is a large portion of Farther India.