Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-05-24
POPULATION.
Europe and the United States COmpar-
ed-SPeeuiatiOns as TO Future ln'
ernasn.

Europe and the United States COmpar-
ed-SpeeuiatiOns as to Future In
crease.
The President, during the last ses-
sion Of Congress, in compliance with
a resolution Of the Senate, transmit
ted to that body the report Of Samuel
b. Ruggles, delegate from the United
States 70 the International Congress
at the Hague, in the year 1859. II
concludes as follows:
''PREFATORY TO PART , OF THE RE-
PORT on THE COMPARATIVE PRO
GREss OF POPULATION IN EUROPE
AND THE UNITED STATES
1.-THE preparation Of this part OF the
report has been unavOidably delayed
by the necessity Of obtaining numer-
GUS statistics OF the population Of the
various nations Of Europe, not only
at different periods, but frequently
with boundaries largely changed,
rendering the population tables Of
little value. 1t was also necessary to
await the completion Of the recent
census Of the United States in 1870 to
show its progress In comparison with
that Of the States Of Europe as q
whole, and also separately, and es-
peeially thOse who are to contribute,
to any considerable degree, to the
emigration into the United States.
Reserving the full exhibition OF these
interesting particulars for detailed re-
port, it may now be stated, in general,
that the rate Of increase Of the popu-
lation of Europe during the century
from 1T70 70 1870 has varied but little
from one per cent. yearly, or ten per
cent. compounded at the end Of every
decade, having been largest in some
Of the earlier portions OF the period,
and diminishing with the last three
or four decades until the present time,
when II is but little more than six
tenths Of one per cent. yearly, COM
pounded at the end Of the decade. It's
population in 1870 did uOtexceed l20,-
600, 900. In view Of the diminishing
fecundity in marriages, Shown by the
latter "A in the United Kingdom, and
only 3.3 In France, for each mar
riage,) aud the constantly increasing
laxity and changing manners Of the
civilized world, the rate Of the in
crease OF its population may very pos
sibly continue 70 diminish, so that Il
would hardly be safe TO assume, even
for the United States, a greater ratio
for the remainder of the present cen
tury, from 1870 10 1900, than two and
a half per cent. yearly, and for Eu-
rope six-tenIhs OF one per cent. year
ly, both to be compounded at the end
OF each decade. It should. however,
be borne in mind that a largely in
creased and steadily continued flow
of European or Aslatic emigration
into the United States may increase
its population three or three and q
half per cent. per annum, or even a
higher figure. At the moderate rates
above specified, compounded every
ten years, the population Of Europe,
amounting in 1870 to the aggregate Of
29S, 900, 600, at six-tenths Of one per
cent. yearly, viii be increased In the
year 1900 70 354, ,9l7 $50; that of the
United States, now 3S,554,S SO, esti-
mated at two and One-haIf per cent,
to "a, ,302, ,495 (; estimated at three per
cent, 81, ,705, ,049. Adopting the lowest
of the preceding estimates for the
United States for its population in
1900, being in round numbers 5,0O0,-
900, and reducing the rate Of increase
for the fifty years next succeeding TO
one per cent. per annum, compound
ed at the end Of every decade, and the
rate Of increase In Europe to One-balf
Of one per cent. yearly, similarly
compounded, their comparative popu-
latiOn in 1850 would stand in round
numbers as follows:
Europe. 453, 900 900
The United States -120, ,500, 200