AREA AND POPULATION
1191
The movement of population from and into the Russian Empire in five years was as follows : —
From Russia
Into Russia.
Riissians
' Foreigners
Total
Russians
Foreigners
Total
1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
329,853 304,019 245,690 272,521 366,441
266,430 277,388 285,040 , 299,467 353,159
596,283 581,407 j 530,730 1 571,988 719,600
202,798 207,836 206,855 213,542 292,080
333,902 357,931 340,848 370,776 426,967
536,700 565,767 547,703 584,318
719,077
The Russians, especially Jews and Poles, contributed a large part to the flow of emigrants into the United States, The number of immigrants from the Russian Empire into the United States during the vears 1873 to 1910 was 2,527,457 (839,364 from 1873 to 1900). The emigration for the last ten years was as follows : —
1901 . . 85,257 1906 . . 215,665
1902 .
. 107,347
1903 .
. 136,093
1904 .
. 145,141
1905 .
. 184,897
1907 .
. 258,943
1908 .
. 156,711
1909 .
. 120,460
1910 .
. 186,792
III. Peincipal Towns.
The great majority of the population of Russia being agriculturists, they dwell in villages. The number of towns and villages in the Russian Empire (exclusive of Finland), grouped according to population, is given as follows : —
Towns with population
Number
Villages with population
Number
Over 100,000 . 50,000—100,000. 20,000— 50,000. 10,000— 20,000. 3,000— 10,000.
19
38
118
315
3,032
1,000—3,000 100—1,000 Under 100.
Towns and villages .
17,724 185,157 521,754
728,157
In European Russia there is an average of one town or village to every 4 '7 sq. miles, the average varying from 1 to every 0*43 sq. miles in Courland to 1 for every 148 sq. miles in the government of Archangel. In Poland there is 1 for every 1 "33 sq. miles ; in the Caucasus 1 for every 9 sq. miles. In Asiatic Russia the average varies between 1 to 14 miles in Samarcand, and 1 to every 2,760 sq. miles in the province of Yakutsk. It will thus be understood that the distinction between the population of towns and of country on January 1, 1911, given in the following table, and based on the census of 1897, and the yearly increase of the population, is not to be closely pressed : —
Population of
In Towns
In the Country
Males
Females
European Russia .
Poland
Caucasus
Siberia
Central Asia ....
15,797,900 2,907,200 1,577,500 1,050,600 1,385,500
104,790,100
9,560,100
10,459,700
7,668,600
8,721,800
59,607,000 6,274,800 0,321,300 4,481,300 5,419,000
60,981,000 6,192,500 5,715,900 4,237,900 4,688,300
Total ....
22,718,700
141,200,300
82,103,400
81,815,600
