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TABLES OF POPULATION. 



Years. 



No. of Inhabitants. 



1824— Hon. J. R. Poinsett, • 6,500,000 



1838 — Report of Commissioner of Chamber of Deputies, 7,009,120 

 1834— Galvan's Mexican Calendar, . . . 7,734,292 

 1836 — Notices of the states and territories of the Mexi- 

 can nation, ...... 7,843,132 



1830— Mr. Burkhardt — a German author, . . 7,996,000 

 1842 — An estimate made as the basis for the election of 



a Congress, (exclusive of Texas,) . . 7,015,509 



In the year 1838, Senor Jose Gomez de la Cortina, — ex-Conde 

 de la Cortina, one of the most enlightened citizens of Mexico, pub- 

 lished a carefully prepared essay upon the population of Mexico, 

 in the 1st No. of the Bulletin of the National Institute of Geogra- 

 phy and Statistics of the Mexican Republic ; and his opinion was 

 that the number of inhabitants greatly exceeded any of the above 

 amounts. By observing the increase of population in different 

 periods of five years, he considered it satisfactorily proved by the 

 Tablas Geographico-politicas, of 1803, that the augmentation, in 

 favorable years, was at the rate If per cent. By applying this 

 ratio to the census of the Tablas, which gave in 1803, 5,764,731 

 inhabitants, we shall have an increase of about 105,000 yearly ; 

 and if we calculate at this rate of augmentation for the 46 inter- 

 vening years, we find in 1850 an increase of 4,830,000, or a grand 

 total of 10,594,731. 



In the year 1842, however, when an estimate was made of a 

 basis of population, upon which to found a call for a Congress to 

 form a new constitution under the plan of Tacubaya, in 23 Depart- 

 ments or States and Territories, exclusive of Texas, the govern- 

 ment calculated that there were 7,015,509 inhabitants. 



1825 — Humboldt, about, 



7,000,000 



Table of Population in 1842. 



Departments. 

 Mexico, . , 

 Jalisco, 

 Puebla, . 

 Yucatan, 

 Guanajuato, 

 Oajaca, 

 Michoacan, 

 San Luis Potosi, 

 Zacatecas, 

 Vera Cruz, . 



