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APPENDIX C 

 Population of Michigan by Sex, Color, and Nativity 



Washington, D. C, July 19, 1921.— The Bureau of the 

 Census, Department of Commerce, to-day issued a prelimi- 

 nary statement giving the composition of the population 

 of Michigan according to sex, color, and nativity, as shown 

 by the census taken as of January 1, 1920. 



The total population of the state, 3,668,412, comprised 

 1.928,436 males and 1,739,976 females. The correspond- 

 ing figures for 1910 were as follows: Total, 2,810,173; 

 males, 1,454,534; females, 1,355,639. During the decade 

 the total population increased by 30.5 per cent, the male 

 population by 32.6 per cent, and the female population by 

 28.4 per cent. The ratio of males to females in 1920 was 

 110.8 to 100, as against 107.3 to 100 in 1910. 



The distribution of the population according to color in 

 1920 was as follows: White, 3,601,627; Negro, 60,082: In- 

 dian, 5,614; Chinese, 792; Japanese, 184; all other (Fili- 

 pino, Hindu, Hawaiian, and Korean), 113. The corre- 

 sponding figures for 1910 were: White, 2.785,247; Negro, 

 17,115; Indian, 7,519; Chinese, 241; Japanese, 49: all 

 other (Filipino), 2. During the decade the white popula- 

 tion increased by 29.3 per cent, while the Negro population 

 increased by 251 per cent. 



The foreign-born white population numbered 726.215 in 

 1920, as against 595,524 in 1910. Tliis element constituted 

 19.8 per cent of the total population in 1920, as against 

 21.2 per cent in 1910. 



