Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which It Occassions

IT would be extremely desirable to be able to deduce from the rate of increase, the actual population, and the registers of births, deaths, and marriages, in different countries, the real prolificness of marriages, and the true proportion of the born which lives to many. Perhaps the problem may not be capable of an accurate solution, but we shall make some approximation towards it, and be able to account for some of the difficulties which appear in many registers, if we attend to the following considerations.

It should be premised however, that in the registers of most countries there is some reason to believe, that the omissions in the births and deaths are greater than in the marriages, and consequently, that the proportion of marriages is almost always given too great.

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