AREA AND POPULATION
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inchule California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, ]Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Ham[>shire, New Jersey, New Yoik, North Carolina (municipalities of 1,000 population and over in 1900) Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, and 43 cities in non- registration states. The estimated population for the registration area in 1910 was 53,843,896, or over one half (583 percent.) of the total estimated population of Continental United States ; and the number of deaths returned for that year was 805,412, or 15.0 per 1,000 of population.
In 1909, 853,290 marriages and 72,062 divorces were recorded in the United States. Marriage and divorce rates, computed on the basis of the 1900 population and the annual averages of marriage and divorce from 1898 to 1902, Avere as follows :
Marriage rate per 10,000, based on total population, 93 ; based on popula- tion over 15 years of age, 141 ; based on unmarried po[»ulation over 15 years of age, 321. Divorce rate per 10,000, based on total pojmlation, 7.3 ; based on married population, 20.0.
The number of marriages and divorces by States Avas as follows :
Geographical Divisions
Marriages, 1906
Divorces,
1906
Geographical Divisions
Marriages, 1906
Divorces,
1906
Continental United States
853,290
72,062
South Atlantic— cont.
District of Columbia Virginia . West Virginia . North Carolina South Carolina Georgia . Florida .
3,833
17,851 11,551 20,085
27,438 9,371
86
1,074
966
380
862 830
New England
57,798
4,022
Maine
New Hampshire Vermont . Massachusetts .
6,574 4,278 3,106 29,654 5,117 9,069
783 473 301 1,540 368 557
Connecticut
East South Central
93.956
8,314
Middle Atlantic .
168,985
5,626
Kentucky Tennessee Alabama . Mississippi
22,087 24,418 25,390 22,061
2,050 2,172 2,162 1,930
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania .
88,979 21,580 58,426
2,069 j
530 3,027
West South Central .
93,499
10,352
East North Central
172,042
19,489
Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas
20,227 16,751 14,012 42,509
2,428
882
1,869
5,173
Ohio
Indiana . Illinois .
45,365 28,306 53,717 27,335 17,319
4,781 4,048 5,943 3,259 1,458 '
Wisconsin
Mountain .
21,989
3,057
West North Central .
107,891
11,437
Montana. Idaho . Wyoming Colorado . New Mexico . Arizona . Utah Nevada .
2,675 2,193 1,181 7,307 2,667 1,579 3,858 534
491 320 143 1,165 218 214 387 119
Minnesota Iowa
Missouri . North Dakota . South Dakota . Nebraska
15,809 20,135 35,750 4,753 4,131 10,344 16,969
1,066 2,385 3,936 '
320
604 ; 1,186 1,940
\PaciJic . . .i 32,135 4,820
South Atlantic . .\ 104,095
4,945
W-KjViinirtnTi ' Q 1 oo T noi
Delaware . . 2,302 Maryland . . 12,564
51 691}
'Oregon . California
1
5,233 17,720
1,026 1,813
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