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UNITED STATES

33,200,103. In the following statement, immigrants from Canada and Mexico are included in the total : —

Year

British Isles

Germany

Sweden, Norway,

and Denmark

Austria- Hungary

Italy

Russia

and

Finland

France

Total Im- migrants

1915

41,422

7,799

17.8S3

18,511

48,688

26,187

4,811

326,700

1916

24,702

2,877

14,761

5,191

33,666

7.842

4,156

298,826

191V

16,141

1,857

13,771

1,258

34,596

12,716

3,187

295,403

1918

2,*47

447

6,506

61

5,250

4,242

1,798

110,618

1919

7,271

52

5,590

53

1.884

1,403/

3,:?79

141,132

Of the total number in 1919, 83,272 were males, and 57,860 were females.

The total number of immigrants from China between 1820 and 1919 was 346,071. In the year 1918 there were 1,576 Chinese immigrants; in the year 1919, 1,697. In 1912 there were 6,172 Japanese immigrants ; in 1917, 8,925 ; in 1918, 10,168 ; and in 1919, 10,056.

Increase of native white, and foreign born white population from 1850 to 1910, by decades : —

Native White

Foreign Born White

Year.

Total

Increase

Per cent.

Total

Increase

Per cent.

1850

17,312,533

_

2,240,535

_

—

1860

22,825,784

5,513,251

31-8

4,096,753

1,856,218

82-S

1870

28,095,665

5,269,881

23-1

5.493,712

1,396,959

34-1

1880

36.843,291

8,747,626

31 "1

6,559,679

1,065.967

19 4

1890

45,979.391

9,136,100

24-8

9,121,867

2,562,188

391

1900

56,595,379

10,615,988

23-1

10,213,817

1,091. I'M)

12-0

1910

68,386,412

11,791,033

20 -S

13,345,545

3,131,728

80-7

Of the total increase of 15,977,691 in the population of the country between 1900 and 1910, whites contributed 14,922,761; negroes, 998,769; and other races, 61,161. The increase in the native population was 12,803,081, and that in the foreign-born 3,174,610, or about one-fifth of the total increase.

The percentage of increase for the whites was 22-8, and for the negroes, 11-2. The native white population increased 20'8 per cent., and the foreign-born white, 30 - 7 per cent.

In 1910 whites constituted 88*9 per cent, of the total population, as compared with 87'9 per cent, in 1900. Native whites, however, constituted a slightly smaller pro- portion of the total in the later year than in the earlier, while foreign-born whites formed 14-5 per cent, of the total in 1910, as compared with 13-4 per cent, ten years earlier.

III. Principal Cities.

i Kxclusive of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Cities with

No.

of Cities

Combined Population

1910

28

22 591 120

1000

19

19

41

1910 17,482,647

•J, N 19, 191

4. 178,915 -t.o<;2,703

1900

200,000 or more II "i. ooo— 200,000 .■.0,0(1/1—100,000 25,000— 50,000

11,795,809

2,412,538 2,760,477 2,785,667 1

25,000 or more

2201

I 161 1

28,543,8161 1

19,754,491 1