302 POPULATION. 



SEXES. 



There are fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-one more females 

 than males in South Carolina, or something over three per cent., indi- 

 cating a peaceful and settled mode of life, and the prevalence of such 

 occupations as furnish employment to females. In the ratio of females 

 to males South Carolina ranks sixth among the States of the Union, the 

 District of Columbia standing first. The Western and newer States, where 

 the conditions of life are harder and the occupations require more robust 

 natures, rank lowest, and in some of them the number of females are only 

 half the number of males. Within the State the males are slightly in 

 excess in Horry and Clarendon counties, and in portions of Colleton, 

 Hampton, Barnwell, and Edgefield. Elsewhere females predominate. 



AGES. 



Multiplying the number of individuals enumerated at each age and 

 adding the products together, the aggregate number of years lived by 

 the population is ascertained. This aggregate for the population of the 

 entire United States, according to the late Census of 1880 is 1,211,568,528 

 years. If divided by the number of individuals it will give an average 

 of 24 7-10 years for each. For South Carolina the average number of 

 years for each individual ascertained in the same way is 21 27-100 years. 

 At first view it might be inferred that the population of South Carolina, 

 having lived fewer years, was the shorter lived. The real explanation is 

 however, quite different. Foreigners constitute about 12 per cent, of the 

 population of the United States and only 7-10 of 1 per cent, of that of 

 South Carolina. The maximum number at any one age among the 

 foreign-born population is found between the ages of 40 and 50, while 

 among the native population this maximum varies from the age of one 

 year for colored females in the United States to six years for the same 

 class in South Carolina. Thus it happens that the number of years lived 

 by the population, including the larger percentage of adult foreigners is 

 swelled by the number of years these immigrants have lived in other 

 countries, while the years lived by the native population is diminished 

 by the deaths common everywhere in the early periods of life. This 

 observation has especial force in South Carolina, owing to the greater 

 number of children there. It will be found also that the aggregate of 

 years lived by those attaining old age in South Carolina gives an average 

 of 77 2-10 years for each person over 70, while this average for the 

 country at large, despite the advantage given by the foreign element, is only 



