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Progress of Population and Wealth 



coloured population, of which the females have a preponderance of 7 

 per centre males under fourteen exceed the females about 3 per cent. 

 The numbers of the three classes, male and female, within the 

 several ages mentioned in the census, are respectively in the follow- 

 ing proportions to the whole of each class, viz : 



1st. Of the whites, 



The males under 10 are 17.1 per cent. The females, 16.3 per cent. 



10 and under 16 7.8 " . " 7.7 " 



16 and under 26 9.9 " . " 9.9 " 



26 and under 45 9.7 " . " 9.4 M 



45 and upwards 6.3 " . . " 5.9 " 



50.8 

 2d. Of the free coloured, 

 The males under 14 are 20.4 per cent. 

 14 and under 26 10.3 " 

 26 and under 45 10. 

 45 and upwards, 7.5 " 



49.2 



The females, 19.7 per cent. 

 . 12.4 

 . 11.6 



. 8.1 



48.2 51.8 



3d. Of the slaves, 



The males under 14 are 22.4 per cent. The females, 21.1 per cent. 

 14 and under 26 13.2 " . . " . 13.2 

 26 and under 45 10.6 " . . " . 9.9 

 45 and upwards, 5. " . . " . 4.6 " 



51.2 



48.8 



It thus appears that one-third of the white population was under 

 ten years of age, and not quite half (48.9 per cent) under sixteen. 

 This age does not so equally divide this part of the population as 

 it did in the previous enumerations, since the same causes which 

 occasioned the small decline in the rate of natural increase before 

 adverted to, lessened the proportion of those who were under that 

 age, and consequently placed the point of equal division at a some- 

 what greater age. 



Of the free coloured population less than two-thirds, (62.8 per 

 jeent,) and of the slaves more than two-thirds, (69.9) are under 

 twenty-six years of age. 



The relative numbers of the white and coloured population in the 

 slaveholding States, is exhibited in the following table : 



