GANNETT.] POPULATION. 17 
The population in 1895 showed a considerable disproportion of males, 
the proportion of this sex being 51.3 to 4.s. 7 of females, bul (he dis- 
proportion is by no means so great in this State as in adjoining States, 
which are, like this, under frontier conditions. This is doubtless due, 
in the main, to the fact that far the greater part of the population 
consists of Mormons. 
Of the total population in 1805, 194,825 were born in this country 
and 52,499 were born in foreign lands. In 1890 the corresponding 
figures were 154,041 and 53,004. Of the native born, not more than 
two-lifths had native-born parents, while the parents of three-fifths 
were born in foreign lands. Thus it appears that of the total popula- 
tion of Utah in 1890 only 33 per cent wen 1 , native born of native 
parents; 41 per cent were born in this country of foreign-born parents, 
and 26 per cent were of foreign birth. 
Of the native born, 77 per cent, or more than three-fourths, were 
born within the State of Utah, and only 23 per cent in other States. 
The proportion native to the State is astonishingly large compared 
with the corresponding figures for adjoining States, where only a com- 
paratively small proportion of the present inhabitants are native to the 
State. 
Of the 53,064 persons of foreign birth found in Utah in L890, 26,776 
were born in Great Britain, i. e., England, Scotland, and Wales, and 
16,883 in Scandinavian countries, i. c, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. 
The natives of other countries were comparatively few in number. 
There were but 2,121 Germans and 2,045 Irish. When one reflects 
that the great bulk of the foreign element in this country in 1890 con- 
sisted of persons of the last two nationalities, he sees at once the 
peculiar character of the immigration to this State, in the country 
at large the Scandinavians and British formed less than one-fourth of 
the entire foreign element; here in Utah they formed more than four- 
fifths of it. 
The negroes and Chinese formed but a trilling clement of the popu- 
lation, there being but 588 of the former and 806 of the latter. 
The statistics regarding the conjugal condition of the people are to 
the effect that the number of married men and women is about the 
same, viz, 33,823 men and 33,790 women. If these figures are to be 
credited, they indicate that very few persons were at that time li\ ing 
in polygamy. 
Of the entire population 10 years of age and over, only 5.6 per cent 
were unable to read, and of these illiterates far the greater proportion 
were among the foreign born, since among the native born the ill it el- 
ates formed only 2.3 per cent, while among the foreign bom the pro 
portion was no less than 10.3 per cent. 
In the matter of religious belief the people of the State are, of course, 
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