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crease of the foreign born, the former 

 increasing 22.5 per cent and the latter 

 only 12.4 per cent. If we exclude 

 the foreign born counted in Hawaii, 

 Alaska, and at military and naval sta- 

 tions abroad, in the United States itself 

 the foreign element increased by only 

 1,091,729, or II. 8 per cent, whereas 

 during the preceding decade it increased 

 by 2,569,604, or 38.5 per cent — that is, 

 during the last ten years the foreign ele- 

 ment increased at less than one-third of 

 its rate of increase during the preceding 

 decade. In absolute numbers there was 

 an addition to our native born popula- 

 tion of 12,081,637, and to our foreign 

 born of 1,151,994. 



There are i Japanese, 2 Chinese, 3 

 Indians, 116 negroes, and 878 whites in 

 every i ,000 of the population. It should 

 be noted that every person of negro de- 

 scent is included among the negroes. 



The totals of the different classes are 

 66,990,802 white persons, 8,840,789 per- 

 sons of negro descent, 119,050 Chinese, 

 85,986 Japanese, and 266,760 Indians, 

 or a total colored element of 9,312,585 

 persons. 



The negro element thus constitutes 

 1 1.6 per cent of the total population, a 

 slightly less percentage than in 1890, 

 when it formed 1 1 . 9 per cent. It has 

 not, however, been increasing so rapidly 

 as the white population, showing an in- 

 crease of only 1 8 . 1 per cent as against an 

 increase of 21.4 per cent for the whites. 

 The absolute increase of the whites has 

 been 11,824,618 during the ten years, 

 and of the negroes 1,352,001. 



The different elements of which the 

 population is composed and their re- 

 spective rates of increase are clearly sum- 

 marized in the following table taken from 

 the report: 



POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES BY SEX, GENERAL NATIVITY, AND 



COLOR : 1890 AND 1900. 



Sex, general nativity, and color. 



Aggregates. 



Total population 



Males 



Females 



Native-born 



Foreign-born 



White 



Colored 



Native white , 



Native parents . 

 Foreign parents 



Foreign white 



Negro 



Chinese 



Japanese 



Indian 



1900. 



76,303.387 



39,059,242 

 37,244,145 



65,843,302 

 10,460,085 



66,990,802 

 9.312,585 



56,740,739 



41,053,417 

 15,687,322 



10,250,063 



8,840,789 



119,050 



85,986 



266,760 



1890. 



63,069,756 



32,315.063 

 30,754,693 



53,761,665 

 9,308,091 



55,166,184 

 7,903,572 



46,030,105 



34,514,450 

 11,515,655 



9,136,079 



7,488,788 

 126,778 



14,399 

 273,607 



Per cent of 



total 

 population. 



1900. 1890 



51.2 

 48.8 



86.3 

 13 7 



87.8 

 12.2 



74 4 



53-8 

 20.6 



13-4 



II. 6 

 0.2 

 0.1 

 0.3 



51 2 



48.8 



852 

 148 



87.5 

 12.5 



73-0 



54-7 

 18.3 



145 



II. 9 

 0.2 



(t) 

 0.4 



Increase from 1890 

 to 1900. 



Number. 



13,233,631 



6,744,179 

 6,489,452 



12,081,637 

 1,151,994 



11,824,618 

 1,409,013 



10,710,634 



6,538,967 

 4,171,667 



1,113,984 



1,352,001 



*7,728 



71,587 

 *6,847 



Per 

 cent. 



20.9 

 21. 1 



22.5 

 12.4 



21.4 

 17.8 



23 3' 



18.9 

 36.2 



12.2 



18: 1 



*6.i 



497.2 



*2.5 



' Decrease. 



t Less than one-tenth of i per cent. 



