Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — OUR POPULATION IN 1900. [ARTICLE]

OUR POPULATION IN 1900.

It May Exceed Ninety Million by Reason of Recent Expansion. If the United States retains the Philippine Islands as a colony, the combined population of the United States and her colonies, based on figures now obtainable, will reach 84,803,729. Probably when the next census of the United States is taken in 1900, the combined population may exceed 90,000,000. This is a greater population than any other nation, except China, the British empire and the Russian empire. Before the annexation of Hawaii the area in square miles of the United States was 3,602,990. Taken with the Philippines. Porto Rico and Hawaii it will be 3.727,453 square miles, the fourth largest in the world.