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PROPORTIONS OF RACES IN TROPICAL AMERICA


 * Country.
 * colspan=2 |Whites.
 * Indians.
 * colspan=2 |Mixed.
 * colspan=2 |Negroes.
 * Mexico (1882)
 * 1,909,000
 * 3,765,044
 * 4,785,940
 * &hellip;
 * Guatemala (1889)
 * 184,000
 * 876,000
 * 400,000
 * &hellip;
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * Honduras (1889)
 * 82,000
 * colspan=3 |350,000
 * &hellip;
 * Salvador (1886)
 * 10,000
 * colspan=3 |654,000
 * &hellip;
 * Nicaragua
 * 50,000
 * colspan=3 |330,000
 * &hellip;
 * Costa Rica
 * 40,000
 * 3,500
 * 160,000
 * &hellip;
 * British Honduras
 * 15,000
 * 26,000
 * &hellip;
 * &hellip;
 * Colombia (1881)
 * 450,000
 * 1,800,000
 * 1,500,000
 * 120,000
 * Venezuela (1888)
 * 480,000
 * 326,000
 * 1,200,000
 * 50,000
 * Peru
 * 474,390
 * 1,832,000
 * 650,000
 * 50,000
 * Chinese
 * Ecuador
 * 100,000
 * 890,000
 * 300,000
 * &hellip;
 * Bolivia
 * 500,000
 * 1,100,000
 * 600,000
 * &hellip;
 * Brazil
 * 3,787,289
 * 386,955
 * 3,801,787
 * 1,954,452
 * Paraguay
 * 66,000
 * 130,000
 * 264,000
 * &hellip;
 * 8,187,679
 * 11,696,999
 * 13,661,727
 * 2,174,452
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * 50,000
 * Peru
 * 474,390
 * 1,832,000
 * 650,000
 * 50,000
 * Chinese
 * Ecuador
 * 100,000
 * 890,000
 * 300,000
 * &hellip;
 * Bolivia
 * 500,000
 * 1,100,000
 * 600,000
 * &hellip;
 * Brazil
 * 3,787,289
 * 386,955
 * 3,801,787
 * 1,954,452
 * Paraguay
 * 66,000
 * 130,000
 * 264,000
 * &hellip;
 * 8,187,679
 * 11,696,999
 * 13,661,727
 * 2,174,452
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * 386,955
 * 3,801,787
 * 1,954,452
 * Paraguay
 * 66,000
 * 130,000
 * 264,000
 * &hellip;
 * 8,187,679
 * 11,696,999
 * 13,661,727
 * 2,174,452
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * 8,187,679
 * 11,696,999
 * 13,661,727
 * 2,174,452
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * colspan=3 |$$\underbrace{\qquad\qquad }$$
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * colspan=4 |1,334.000 pure and mixed.
 * }
 * }

Of these numbers, taken merely from the Statesman's Year-Book, it may be observed—

1. That the number of pure whites allotted to Brazil seems extravagantly large. It probably includes all half-castes, except mulattoes.

2. In Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and British Honduras, the number of whites is given conjecturally, or by collection, from all estimates. The estimate of whites for Colombia is taken from Lanier's Amérique du Sud, p. 372.

3. The last census of Venezuela shows a decisive increase of half-castes and diminution of pure Indians. Former censuses give the numbers as follows:—