Page 19 - An Overview of Penghu

According to the above statistics, the average population density
of Penghu Prefecture was 7,776 people per square mile (which equals to
1,978 people per square kilometer), which was the highest in Taiwan,
and only trailed behind Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture when
compared with all cities and prefectures in Japan. In terms of birth and
death, 2,489 people were born while 1,156 people perished in 1930,
amounting to a 1,333 increase in population and a rate of increase of 20
people per thousand people.

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