The Florence tribune., 1896-02-15
SEX AMONG EMIGRANTS.
The Proportion of Women Among
 the New Arrivals.
Some Strange Facts Brought Out by ofHcial Statistics-Countries in Which There Are More Women
 Than Men.

The publication of articles on the subject of European immigration into the republic of Venezuela has called attention again to one of the euriosi- ties of emigration which has never been clearly explained and remains there fore something of an enigma. 1t is well known that the foreign inn sSra- ton into this country from the north ern nations of Europe-Great Britain, Germany. Russia and Scandinavia- have, like the early colonists from the same countries, been pretty evenly di- vided between the two sexes. The emigration from the southern coun- tries of Europe, on the contrary, Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal, has been chiefly male, and to this fact, perhaps, more than to any other. is due the in termarriage of emigrants and natives in South and Central America, and the general absence of such marriages in North America, particularly in the United States and Canada. The emi- grafton from Ireland, for instance, for many years, has been more largely made up of female than of male cmi- grants, while from Italy, on the other hand, the proportion for a period of more than 20 years is, male, 5; female, p.
 The total number of cmigrants to the United States from 1s45, the first year of large emigration, to 1895, a period covering half century. was in excess of 16,0Ge, GOO, and more than 40 per cent. was female, whereas the large Spanish and Italian emigration to South Ameri- ca has been almost exclusively male. As this matter is not one of early oc- currence, but continues at present {the census figures resuming their old dimensions since the improvement of the times), it might be supposed that the number of women in those Euro pean countries from which there is and has been practically no female emigration, would be much larger than in those countries which have suffered a steady diminution through the emi- |. grafton of persons of both sexes. But Of figures of the Almanach de Gotha. in Italy, from which there is very little female emigration, the number Of fe- male inhabitants is actually less than the male inhabitants--in the ratio of a9 to f00 In Roumania it is 93 to 100. On the other hand, in Great Britain, from which the emigration of women has been continuous, they outnnmber the men in the proportion of 104 to 100. In all the other couD tries of Europe from which there is and has been a large female emigration a majority cf the inhabitants are women. In Rus sia the proportion is 102 women to 1oo men, in Germany 104 women to 10o men, in Sweden 106 women to 100 men in Switzerland 104 women to 100 men and in Denmark and Austria 103 wom. en to 100 men. In France and Belgium the equality of proportion between the sexes is evenly preserved. Thus, in France there are 1,004 women to 1000 men, and in Belgium the difference is smaller, there being 1,O01 women tc i 1000 men.
 A still more peculiar manifestation of the same paradox, if it may be SC considered, is found in the official re ports recently published in England of the emigration from that country during the last quarter of century In 1860 4s1s per cent. of the popula lioI of Great Britain was male and 511a pel cent. was female. Between 1860 ant 1870 the female emigration was the larg CT, yet by the census of 1871 the female population increased the more rapidly From 1870 to 1880 the male emigration was the larger, but the female ropu ] lation increased the more rapidly.-N V SII1a