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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
