The proportion of the British population has remained around 70%, which is good news for Australasia and something that makes Arthur more satisfied.

Although Australasia is an open-ended country of immigrants, it does not theoretically exclude any white immigrants from Europe.

But in any case, immigrants are also estranged. For Australasia and Arthur, the closest people are always British immigrants, because Australasia and Arthur were both born in England, and British immigrants are the foundation of Australasian rule.

Secondly, Russian immigrants were a more acceptable and dominant people in Australasia than British immigrants.

The first is the marriage between the Australasian royal family and the Russian royal family, which turned the two countries into close and friendly in-law countries.

In addition, Russian immigrants are generally converted from serfs, and Russia is also an absolute tsarist country, these Russian immigrants have a higher degree of acceptance of absolute monarchy, and even most immigrants maintain a loving attitude towards absolute monarchy.

As for the second largest number of German immigrants in Australasia, Arthur did not want to bring in too much, although he was not too repulsive to them.

At the very least, the size of Russian immigrants should be raised to the second, so that Arthur would be more satisfied with the racial proportions.

In fact, the reason is very simple, although Germany and Australasia have very good relations at the moment, because Germany and Australasia do not have any conflict of interest.

But Arthur knew that Germany would inevitably stand in opposition to Britain in the future. If there are too many German immigrants in Australasia, there will inevitably be conflicts with British immigrants in the future, which Arthur does not want to see, and it is very likely to threaten the stability of the country.

What's more, Arthur did not dare to guarantee that Australasia would always be friendly with Germany.

For example, the Third Reich was born after Germany's defeat in World War I and the abolition of the monarchy, and Arthur did not dare to make friends with it.

In the event that he was pulled into the chariot of the Third Reich in the future, Arthur would have a bitter situation that he could not say.

Overall, however, population growth is good news for Australasia. Even in today's world, a country cannot be called a strong country without a population of 10 million, and if it does not have a population of more than 50 million, it is not qualified to compete for great powers.

If you look at every great power country in the world, which one is not a large country with a vast territory and a large population.

Resources, land area and population are significant factors that limit the development of a country, and for Australasia, the only limit is population.

This is why Arthur is looking forward to the population rising to tens of millions, if not tens of millions. By that time, what kind of potential will Australasia burst out?

Currently, the most populous state in Australasia is Victoria, with a total population of up to 1399795 people. New South Wales is not much different, with a total population of up to 1396487 people.

Sydney, the capital city, is the first and only city in Australasia with a population of more than 1 million, and the current total population is as high as 1194594.

Apart from these three states, South Australia is the only state with a population of more than 1 million, with a total population of 1125487.

The neighbouring state of Western Australia has a total population of 864679 people. Because of the construction of the Leonora industrial base, the government has managed to transport a large number of immigrants.

This is also the real reason why population growth in the southeast of Australia is gradually slowing, as a large number of migrants are being transported to Western Australia and South Australia in preparation for the construction of industry and the construction of industrial bases in both states.

It is conservatively estimated that the populations of South Australia and Western Australia will reach 1.3 million and 1 million respectively before the initial completion of the Leonora Industrial Base, which will be fully able to meet the initial demand for workers and labour in the industrial area.

Around 1916, when the industrial zone was built, the populations of South Australia and Western Australia were even as high as 1.5 million and 1.2 million, completely giving life to these two sparsely populated areas.

Compared to the seven regions of Australia, New Zealand's population is much smaller. The current population of Northern New Zealand is about 920,000 and that of Southern New Zealand is about 570,000. With the exception of Northern New Zealand, which barely keeps up with the size of a few states in regional Australia, Southern New Zealand has the smallest population among the larger states.

In terms of cities, the most populous city is of course Sydney, while the second most populous city is Melbourne, which also has a population of more than 870,000. Currently, with the exception of the two colonies and Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, the capital cities of all other states have populations of more than 100,000.

According to the intelligence of the Ministry of People's Livelihood, there are 23 cities with a population of more than 100,000 in Australasia, more than half of which are located in the southeast of Australia.

This also highlights the current state of development in Australasia: the best of Australasia is in Australia, and the best of Australia is in the southeast.

Despite the significant increase in population, Australasia's per capita income has not been affected, and has even increased.

According to the report of the Ministry of People's Livelihood, as of January 1910, the per capita annual income of Australasia was nearly 47 Australian dollars, and the per capita annual income of Australia was even as high as 48 Australian dollars.

New Zealand is not bad, with a per capita income of about $44 a year, far exceeding the per capita income of the two colonies of $26.

Arthur is convinced of the growth of per capita annual income, because from the information of depositors in the royal bank controlled by Arthur, it can be seen that Australasian deposits have increased in recent years, and whose family does not have 1200 savings?

Of course, economic growth is also reflected in the government's finances.

Throughout 1909, the total revenue of the Royal Government of Australasia was about 54.25 million Australian dollars, an increase of 8 million Australian dollars compared with 1908, and it was also the first time that it exceeded 50 million Australian dollars.

By comparison, total fiscal spending was $49 million, an increase of $6 million from 1908, including some military spending and other government spending.

Throughout 1909, Australasia's total military expenditure exceeded $19 million for the first time, also because of the large amount of money required for the testing and maintenance of battleships after they were built. Coupled with the training of the corresponding naval officers and men, the increase in military spending is a normal situation.

What's more, Australasia's fiscal surplus has maintained a surplus under the premise of a crazy increase in various expenditures, which is good news for the development of finances and government.

In 1909, the royal family received $542,500 from the government to maintain the operation of the royal family and the royal palace, as well as as to fund the royal family.

The royal family received 1% of the total government revenue as a special fund for the royal family every year, but the income at that time was only tens of thousands of pounds.

This has also led to the fact that although the royal family is currently going to take more than 500,000 Australian dollars from the treasury, there is still no official or parliamentarian who has expressed opposition.

After all, when the country was in crisis, the royal family received very little money, and now the more than 500,000 Australian dollars are the royal family's deserving, not to mention that Arthur's annual private investment in Australasian people's livelihood and various policies far exceeds this figure.

Australasia's current financial availability is a terrifying $230 million, which even gives Arthur the illusion that he can't spend it all.

However, Arthur soon dispels this thought, because he knows that the cost of war is enormous.

Didn't the old powers, which occupied a large number of colonies like Britain and France, not recover long after the First World War?

You know, the top powers like Britain and France, they can make a lot of profits from their respective colonies every year, such profits are far beyond the imagination of Australasia.

But such profits can barely survive a war, let alone Australasia, which is only in a state of surplus at present.

The development of agriculture in Australasia is also great news. At present, Australia's total arable land area has reached 19,532,952 acres, and the per capita arable land area remains at about 2.3 acres.

It is precisely because of the increase in arable land that Australasia's grain production in 1909 has broken through a new high, reaching about 8.9 million tons.

Yes, the increase in grain is exaggerated, compared with two years earlier, in 1907, the total grain production has increased by nearly 2 million tons, but the total arable land has increased by less than 2 million acres.

The real reason for the massive increase in food production is the widespread use of agricultural machinery such as tractors in parts of New Guinea and Australasia.

Coupled with the construction and production of some agrochemical plants and fertilizer processing plants, Australasia's grain yield per mu has gradually increased, and even the effective European grain yield is close to the trend.

At present, the grain production of the colonies of New Guinea has exceeded 1 million tons, accounting for 11% of the total grain production in Australasia.

Thanks to the increasing food production in various regions, Australasia's strategic food reserves have now reached 2 million tonnes, enough for all Australasian people to feed for a year.

At present, the total annual grain consumption of Australasia is about 2 million tons, and in 1909, the total amount of grain exported by Australasia was as high as 5 million tons, and the grain was exported to Europe and the United States and some colonies of foreign powers.

Old powers like Britain and France basically have some cooperative relations with Australasia.

Australasia is one of the suppliers of both grain and meat products, and also occupies a lot of the market of the two powers.

Thanks to the geographical environment of Oceania, which is more suitable for grazing, Oceania beef and mutton, or Australian beef and mutton, has gained a great reputation, which is also the achievement of Australasian animal husbandry at present.

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