| United Kingdom and home dependencies | 41,608,791 |
| Australasia | 4,662,000 |
| British North America | 5,500,000 |
| Africa (Dutch and British)[[2]] | 1,000,000 |
| India | 169,677 |
| West Indies and Bermuda | 100,000 |
| ————— | |
| 53,040,468 |
The native population of the empire includes types of the principal black, yellow and brown races, classing with these the high-type races of the East, which may almost be called white. The native population of India, mainly high type, brown, was returned at the census of 1901 as 294,191,379. The population of India is divided into 118 groups on the basis of language. These may, however, be collected into the following principal groups:—
(A) Malayo-Polynesian.
(B) Indo-Chinese:
i. Mon-Khmer.
ii. Tibeto-Burman.
iii. Siamese-Chinese.
(C) Dravido-Muṇḍā:
i. Muṇḍā (Kolarian).
ii. Dravidian.