Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION. [ARTICLE]

THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION.

; - f /*■. Official Statement and Comparisons with Former Census. The population of the United States on. June l, 1890, as shown by the first counted persons and families, exclusive of white persons in Indian Territory, Indians on reservations and Alaska, was 62,480,640 j These figures may be slightly changed byi later and more exact compilations, but such changes Will not be material. In 1880 the population was 50,155,783. The absolute increase of the population in the ten years intervening was 12,324,575, and the percentage of increase was $4.57. In 1870 the population was stated as 38,558,371. According to these figures the absolute increase in the decade between 1870 and 1880 was 11,617,412, and the percentage of increase was 30.08. Upon their face these figures show that the population has increased between 1880 and 1890 only 727,345 more than between 1870 and 1880, while the rate of increase has apparently diminished from 30.08 to 24.67 per cent. If these figures were derived from correct data they would be disappointing Such areduetionin the rate of increase iff the face of enormous immigration during the past ten years would argue a great diminution in the fecundity of the population or a correspondiug increase in its death rate. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS. The following table shows the population of the several States, as found by the census enumeration of the years 1890, igso and 1870: 1 1890 j 1880 ( 1870 United State? 82,480.5x0 80,15:,753 33,558,371 N. Atlantic div....- 17,264,429. 14 507,407 iS,27\7*> Maine 660,281 548,936 625,415 New Hampshire..... 875,827 846,991 SlB/Q0 Vermont 332,206 M2;2Sb 830,6 a Massachusetts ...... 2,233,497 1,783,0*5 1,497,551 Hhode Island 3*6,34.1 276,531 217.85 S Connecticut..... 715,56 t 622,700 537,454 New York 1,961,984 6,882,871 4X82,730 New Jersey 1,4*1.017 1,1311!6 906,690 Pennsylvania 6,248,574 4,,82,891 3X21.959 8. Atlantic div 8.686,739 7,697,197 5,f)58,61* Delaware 167,871 146,606 125,00 MarylaSd . ... 1,049,431 954,965 780,69 i District of Col’mb. 229,796 - 777,424 faLwl Virginia 1,648,911 1,512,5 t 1,228,1*1 North Carolina 1,617.340 1,399,75<J 1,071,861 South Carolina 1,147,161 905,577 705,606 Georgia 1,834, iG6 1.542,180 1,184109 Florida 890,*35 269.497 ttffiiß West Virginia 760,448 618,457 -AiXH*! N. Central division 22,822,151 17,161,11! 2,961*02 Ohio 3,666,7.19 3.198,062 2,6*9*13 Indiana 2,189,030 1,978,30 l'tottfe* Illinois 8,818,530 3,087,874 2539X91 Michigan 2,089.792 1,666.987 1,j84,06§ Wisconsin 1,683,6*7 1,815,49? IJMMJM Minnesota 1.300,017 780,773 432,706 10wa...UR.....: 1,907, 1,624,615 1 ( 1*,0* -Mtjgßuri. 2,677,080 2,168,380 1,721,29 a rrorthDakota 182,425 86 909 ... ..... South Dakota..... 327,848 98,268 14,181 Nebraska 1,056,793 452,402 122,933 Kansas. 1,483,485 996,986 304,389 Southern cent, div 10,94-,253 8,919,371 6,k.1,4*1P Kentucky .. 1,855,436 1,648,690 1, 321.njt Tennessee 1,763,738 1,542.359 IJBSAM A1abama............... 1,505,073 1,262,50 a 996,9 M Mississippi,..,., 1,384,887 1,131,597 s££9 Louisiana 1,116,828 939.940 Texas., 2.232, bS> 1,591,749. Oklahoma ............ 61,701 ..../.J.:. .4 Arkansas ...... 1,125,385 802,525 454,47$ Western division... 8,008,948 1,767,6 a; 990,1*1 Montana 131,769 '49, I'M 20,60(1 Wyoming ....2....... 20,785 9,ti1l Coiotado 410,975 MAST. New Mexico iff ,862 119,561 , MApS Arizona... 59,691 4®,4-< ! - MU' Utah 2D64M H*96; B#W ■Nevada.;. 44,327 . 4221#S 84,239 82,W WasbmgtoTi -altar# Ts.tXf xh Oregon .j tixm mm mm California ...-I 1,201.002 864,69; 5M.24j