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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.
