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