The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-12
TOLD BY The CENSUS
POPULATION OF THE uNTTEn
STATES BY SEX, NATIVITY
AND COLOR
MORE MALES THAN FEMALES
Percentage of Population Foreign
Born Less in 400 Than in 1890
comparative Figures
of Interest.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE final
census report on the population by sex,
general nativity and color of the several
states and territories was issued today.
This last bulletin of the series covers the
entire country. It shows that the males
number 39,059,242 and constitute 51.2 per
cent of the total population in 1900, while
the females number 37,244,145, or 1873 per
cent
There is a slightly larger proportion of
females now than ten years ago.
There is a difference in favor of males
at the present census of 1,815097, as COM
pared with an excess of males for the
equivalent area in 1890 of $50, 80
There has been an increase in total
population of 1928, 631, or q per cent
since 1890 made up of 6,744.179 males and
! ,452 females representing an increase
in males of 20.9 per cent and females I'll
per cent. There are 65, 843, 1902 native born
persons and 10,4600S5 foreign born per-
sons, the latter element constituting 1871
per cent of the total population in 1900
against 148 per cent ten years ago. The
foreign born show an absolute increase
| during the decade of 1,151, 1884 while the
/ natlVe porn nave increased in ten years
| 12,0 ,637
| AS to color and race the population in
| 1900 is made up of 66,990, 902 white persons
and 93l2,5S5 colored persons, the latter
figure comprising 8,S40789 persons Of
negro descent, 110,O5O Chinese IS, 1856 Jap
| anese, and 26676O Indians The cor
responding figures for 1890 showed a total
| of 81, 166184 white persons, 7,4SS,7SS per-
sons of negro descent, 126,77S Chinese,
1889 Japanese, and COZ Indians
The colored element constitutes 1912
per cent of the total population in $780, as
against 12.5 per cent in 1890. The white
population shows an increase since 1890
of 11,S24, 61S,- or 21.4 per cent and the col
sod or - N N
1i.S per cent.
There has been an increase during the
past ten years in persons of negro descent
OF 1,352, col, or ISL per cent and in
Japanese of n,S57 or 1872 per cent The
Chinese, on the other hand show a loss
since 1890 of 7,72S, or 81 per cent, while
the Indians have decreased from 273 COZ
in 1890 to 66760 in 1900, equivalent to a
loss of 25 per cent.
OF the total white population 56,740 739
are native whites, constituting IA per
cent of the total population and 10,250,063
foreign whites, constituting 1874 of the
total population Native white persons
are in turn subdivided into 41,O53,417 of
native parentage and Is, ST., 322 of foreign
parentage, constituting, respectively, 53S
per cent and 206 per cent of the total
population.
The native white element has increased
1913 per cent and the foreign whites only
1Z.Z per cent SlHCe loJU. Inc udlIV6 WHITE
element of foreign parentage has in
creased relatively twice as fast as the
native whites of native parentage
Following are the figures for the only
states whose statistics have not been
announced heretofore:
Vermont = Total, populati ton, 1888
males, 16S, SOB females; total foreign born,
74,747; total. white, S42,7n; native white,
| PCS, gu; total colored element (including
negroes, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), 80
Virginia-925,S 97 males 92S,2S7 females;
foreign born, Il, 461; total white, 1,192, 1855;
native white, 1,173,7S7; total colored, 661,-
329.
Washington state-SJ4,17S, males, 219, s20
females; foreign born, Ill, 1854; total white
| 496,S04; native white, 394,179; total colored
West virginia-4s9, 242 males. 1885 fe-
males; q. 451 foreign born; total White,
915, 2S3; native white, Se2,S54; colored, 49,
| SCI.
Wisconsin,, O67, 562 males, 1,0O1, 48O fe-
males; 515,971 foreign born; total white,
2,057,911; native white, 1,542, POS; colored,
| II 131.
Wyoming males. s4.347 females;
| foreign born, 17,415; total white. S9,051; ma
tive white, 72.469; colored, 3,4So