Vol. XII, No. ii 



WASHINGTON 



November, 1901 



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THE SEX, NATIVITY, AND COLOR OF THE 

 PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES 



IN June, 1900, there were in the 

 United States proportionally a few 

 more females than in 1S90, a 

 greater proportion of the population was 

 native born, and there were also propor- 

 tionally more whites ; or, stated con- 

 versely, there were proportionally fewer 

 males, fewer foreigners, and fewer blacks 

 than ten years ago. 



In other words, during the past ten 

 years the number of women has been 

 growing slightly more rapidl}^ than the 

 number of men ; the native born popu- 

 lation has increased at nearl}^ double the 

 rate of increase of the foreign born, the 

 foreign element having increased at less 

 than one-third of the rate of increase of 

 the foreign born during the preceding 

 decade, and the number of whites has 

 increased to quite an extent more rap- 

 idly than has the number of blacks. 



These are the main conclusions de- 

 rived from a study of the figures pre- 

 sented in a recent Census Bulletin.* 



The total population of the United 

 States on June i, 1900, was 76,303,387, 

 including persons enumerated at mili- 

 tary and naval stations and naval ships 

 abroad and in Alaska, Hawaii, Indian 

 Territory, and Indian reservations. 



* Census Bulletin No. 103. 



This great total consisted of 39,059, 242 

 males and 37,244,145 females— a ma- 

 jority for the males of 1,815,097. Ex- 

 pressed differently, of each 10,000 in- 

 habitants 5,118 were boj^s and men 

 and 4,882 were girls and women. Ten 

 years before there were 32,315,063 males 

 and 30,754,693 females, or of every 

 10,000 inhabitants 5, 1 24 were males and 

 4,876 were females. The females have 

 thus increased only a very little more 

 rapidly than the males. In 1900, in 

 10,000 inhabitants there were 236 more 

 men than women, whereas in 1890, in 

 the same number of inhabitants, there 

 were 248 more men than women. Ex- 

 pressed in percentages, there has been 

 an increase in males of 20.9 per cent and 

 in females of 21. i per cent. 



Of native born persons there were 

 65,843,302 and of foreign born 10,460, 

 085 in 1900 — that is, of every 1,000 per- 

 sons in 1900, 863 were born in the United 

 States and only 137 outside the borders 

 of the country. In 1 890, on the other 

 hand, there were 53,761,665 native born 

 and 9,308,091 foreign born, or of every 

 1,000 persons 852 were native and 148 

 foreign born. 



During the ten years the native born 

 increased at nearly double the rate of in-. 



