Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Foreign-Born Population. [ARTICLE]

Foreign-Born Population.

According to the eleventh'census, the total foreign-born population of this country was as follows: “From Germany, 2,784,894; Ireland, 1,871,509; * British America, including Newfoundland, 980,938; England, 909,092; Sweden, 478,041; Norway, 322,665; Scotland, 242,231; Russia, 182,644; Italy, 182,580; Poland, 147,440; Denmark, 132,543; Austria, 123,271; Bohemia, 118,106; France, 113,174; China, 106,688; Switzerland, 104,069; Wales, 103,079; Netherlands, 81,828; Mexico, 77,853; Hungary, 62,435; Belgium and Luxembourg, 25,521; Cuba and West Indies, 23,256; Portugal, 15,996; Central and South America, 6,198; Spain 6,185; India, including Asia, not specified, 4,403; Japan, 2,292; Greece, 1,887; all others, 41,729. Total foreign-born, 9,249,547. The persons in the United States of foreign parentage, which includes persons born abroad and native children of foreign-born persons, numbered, in 1890, 20,676,046, 33.02 per cent of the population. The percentage in 1880 was 29.75; in 1870, was 28.25.