UNITED STATES CENSUS. 



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TMTEI) STATES COST'S. A full report 



of preliminary results app-aivcl in the last two 

 issues of the Annual Cyclopaedia, and contained 

 in substance the contents of all census bulletins 

 uj> I.* time of going to press. 



Population. General statistics of population 



iven in the 1890 issue, uith tabular exliib- 



"win^ rank in population of States and 



Territories, with figures giving comparative, 



Mutinies concerning population of many cities. 



Under the heading of Population in the last issue 



of the Annual appeared a tabular exhibit, by 



States, of cities having a population of 1,000 or 



over. 



This table gave the number of cities in the 

 dilL rent classes, and the aggregate population in 

 each class in each State. The population of 

 Alaska in detail was also shown. 



From later bulletins now available, the follow- 

 ing particulars can be given on the general 

 subject : 



Color, Sex, and General Nativity. The ag- 

 gregate population of the country, according to 

 the revised returns, was, 1890, 62,622,250. Of 

 this number 32,067,880 were males, and 30.554,- 

 870 females. The native born population num- 

 bered 53,372,703 ; foreign born, 8,249,547. The 

 total number of whites is given as 54,983,890; 

 colored, 7,638,360. The Superintendent of Cen- 

 sus says, in his remarks summarizing the tabular 

 exhibits: "The population as a whole has in- 

 creased, during the decade from 1880 to 1890, 



eign born. In 1880 there were 48,475,840 native 

 born and 6,679,943 foreign born. The increase 

 in native born during the decade was 9,896,863, 

 or 22.76 per cent., as against an increase for the 

 decade ending with 1880 of 10,484,698, or 81.78 

 per cent. The increase in foreign born during 

 the decade from 1880 to 1890 was 2,56!,604. or 

 88.47 percent., the increase for the decade end- 

 ing with 1880 being 1,112,714, or 19.99 per < -ent. 

 " According to the census of 1890 there arc in 

 the United States 54,983.890 white persons and 

 7,638,360 colored persons, meaning, by 'colored,' 

 persons of African descent, Chinese, Japanese, 

 and civilized Indians. There has been an in- 

 crease in the white from 1880 to 1890 of 11,580,- 

 920, or 26.68 per cent., and an increase in the 

 colored for the same decade of 885,547, or 13.11 

 per cent. For the decade from 1870 to 1880 the 

 white increased 29.22 per cent, and the colored, 

 apparently, 35:90 per cent. As has already 

 been explained in previous bulletins, however, 

 the increase from 1870 to 1880 was to a certain 

 extent fictitious, particularly as regards the 

 colored population of the south. As stated in 

 Bulletin Iso. 16, giving the official count of 

 population by states and territories, ' the census 

 of 1870 was grossly deficient in the southern 

 states, eo much so as not only to give an exag- 

 gerated rate of increase of the population between 

 1870 and 1880 in these states, but to affect very 

 materially the rate of increase in the country at 

 large.' 



* In the second table the number and IKT cent, of native and foreign lx>rn for the decade ending with 1850 is not 

 shown, as the foreign born population was not separately returned for the census of 1840. 



a Including 6,100 persons on public ships in the sen-ice of the United States returned in 1840, but not separated 

 according to sex. 



12,466,407, or 24.86 per cent., the total population 

 returned in 1899 being 62.622,250 as against a 

 total population in 1880 of 50,155,783. The 

 males have increased from 25,518,820 in 1880 to 

 o-2,<>(i7.880 in 1890, the numerical increase being 

 6,549,060, or 25.66 per cent. The whole number 

 of females returned in 1880 was 24,636.963, while 

 in 1890 there were 30,554.370. The females 

 have increased, therefore, 5,917,407, or 24.02 per 

 cent., since 1880. 



"Considering the population classified as re- 

 gards native and foreign born, we find that 

 63,372,703 are native born and 9,249,547 are for- 



