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UNITED STATES

It is estimated that, from the foundation of the Government up to 1820 about 250,000 alien passengers arrived, 98 per cent, of whom wereinimigrants. The total number of immigrants from 1820 to 1909 (June 30) was 27,025,893. In the following statement, immigrants from Canada and Mexico are not included: —

Year

'S" ' «— y

.Sweden, Norway,

and Denmark

49,965 30,175

32,496

48,267 42,285

Austria- Hungary

.338,452 lfi8,509 170,191

258,737 159,057

Italy

Russia

and

Finland

25-^,943 156,711 120,460 186,792 158,721

France "^^^^^ ^"'■ i< ranee i^jgrants

1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

113,567 37,807 93,380 32,309 71,826 1 25,540 98,796 31,283

102,496 j 32,061 1

285,731 128,503 183.218 215,537 182,882

9,731 1,285,349 8,788 7^2,^70 6,672 751,780 7,383 1,041,570

8,022 878,587

Of the total number in 1911; 570,057 were males, and 308,530 were females.

The total number of Chinese immigrants between 1830 and 1911 was 335,773, In the year 1911 there wer.i 1,307 immigrants from China. In 1909 there were 3,275 Japanese immigrants; in 1911, 4,575.

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

Native White

For.'

gn Born White

Year.

Total

Increase

Per cent.

Total

Increase

Per cent-

increase

increase

1850

17,312,533

_

2,240,535

186!)

22,825,658

5,513,125

31 -S

4,096,879

1,856,344

&2-9

1870

28 095,665

5,270,007

23-1

5,493,712

1,-396,833

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

39-1

1900

56,595,379

10,615,988

23-1

10,213,817

1,091,950

12-0

1910

68,386,412

11,791,033

20-8

13,345,545

3,131,728

30-7

Of the total increase of 15,977,691 in the poi)ulatior, of the covntry between 1900 and 1910, whites contributed 14,922,761; negroes, 993,769; and other race.s, 61,161. The increase in the native population was 12,803,081, and that in the foreign-lom 3,174,610, or about one-fifth of the total increase.

The percentage of increase for the whites was 22'3, and for the negioe.«, 11 "2. The native white population increased 20"8 p<r cent., and the foreign-born white, 30*7 per cent.

In 1910 whites constituted 889 per cent, of the total population, as compared with 87'9 per cent, in 1900. Native whites, however, constituted a .<dightly 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 conii:)ared with 13-4 per cent, ten years earlier.

III. PiiiNciPAL Cities.

Cities with

No. of 1910

Cities 1900

Combined

Population

■

1910

1900

. 200,000 or more

100,000—200,000

50,000-100,000

25,000— 50,000

.28 22 591 120

19 19 40 821

17,4^2,647 2,819,491 4,178.9151 4,054,264

11,795,809 2,412,538 2,709,338 2,800,6271

25,000 or more

2291

ICiO 1

28,535,317 1

19,718,3121

1 Exclusive of Honolulu, Hawaii.