Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — POPULATION NOW 84,233,069. [ARTICLE]

POPULATION NOW 84,233,069.

United States and Its Possessions the Fourth Largest Nation. The census bureau has seat out a statement of the total population of the United States, including the outlying territories. It is shown that the United States now includes along with the main part or continental United States certain outlying districts, namely, Alaska and the recent insular accessions, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Guam and American Samoa. The twelfth census extended over only two of these outlying districts, Alaska and Hawaii, hut the census office has obtained the best available information regarding the population of the other portions of the United States and prepared the following, showing the present population of the entire United States: The Continental United States has a population of 75,094,575 Philippine Islands 6,601,330 Porto Itlco P53,:U3 Hawaii 154,001 Alaska <13,51*2 Guam 8,000 American Samoa 6,100 The number of persons in military and naval service outside continental United States Is 91,219. The total population of the United States is, therefore, 84,233,099. As the population of the United States about the beginning of the century was about 5,333,000, the nation has grown nearly sixteenfold in 100 years. The Russian Empire, with about 131.000,000 people, has more than half ns many again ns the United States, and has been increasing during the century just closed with greater rapidity than any other European power. France, including its dependencies, is the fourth country in the world, in order of population, and has about 83,000,000 inhabitants, or almost the same number as the United States. The five most populous countries together include over two-thirds of the estimated population of the world, which is placed by the best authorities at be tween 1,500,(XXI,000 and 1,000,000,000.