Ernst sat in an armchair, reviewing this year's data for the East African colony.
As Northern Kenya fell into the hands of the East African Colonial Government—though it possessed only sovereignty and had not yet begun development—the East African colony's area had reached roughly 1.4 million square kilometers. Tanzania and Kenya from his previous life had basically fallen into the hands of the East African colony, although Zanzibar Island and the desert along Kenya's northeastern coast had yet to be unified.
The East African colony's registered immigrant population had now reached 582,413. Of course, this excluded the Black natives; the colony currently controlled somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 Black people.
Ernst and the East African government had initially estimated that the number of immigrants by year's end would approach 500,000. The reason they had exceeded that target by so much was the two newly opened sources of immigration: Paraguayan War migrants and migrants from the Southern German territories.
The composition of the immigrants had also changed with the addition of these new sources. Chinese immigrants still ranked first in number, but only just exceeded 300,000. Immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire ranked second, nearing 200,000. Paraguayan immigrants, mainly women and children, ranked third. Middle Eastern immigrants such as Armenians ranked fourth, while immigrants from the German territories came only fifth.
Of course, if counted by ethnicity, Germans were not few in number and ranked third. A considerable portion of the Austro-Hungarian immigrants were Germans.
And immigration from the Southern German territories had not truly begun to exert its strength yet. By optimistic estimates, at least 200,000 Germans could be recruited throughout the German territories next year, excluding the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The reason the number of native captives fluctuated so greatly was that the natives were not yet worth the East African