Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-08
TOTAL POPULAT
OF UNITED STATES
NOW 1O5,683,1O8
Bureau of Census Reports In
crease of 1A.o Per Cent. or
l3,7l0,Sa2 in Decade.
POSSESSIONS HAVE
ABOUT 12,5O0, 900
ny Associated Press to Every Evening

ny Associated Press tn Every Evening
Washington, Oct. s.-The 1920 popula-
ton of the continental United States was
announced Yesterday by the Census
Bureau As los, ,6s3, los. This was All incr-sae
of I3,Tto.St,, or ti.p per cent, since 1910.
Tho total does not include the pops,la-
tions Of oluving posscssions which VIII fs'
annassinokd rs sos,a M th~ figures for Ala-ka
and tho military and naval service abroad
are tabulated. II Ii estimated, however,
that these possessions have l2.l5O0oo m
hahitan,s, 81 the total number OF people
living under the American flag Is IN round
numbers. lls,oOo,0o0.
The figures for continental United
States compare with 81 ,972, 266 ten years
ago and 1894, SIS 20 years ago. The IN
crease for the last decade, however, fell
., 266. $40, or 6l per cent below that of
the preceding decade.
Director Rogers of the Census Bureau,
in formal statement, attributes this re-
duction to the almost complete stoppage
of immigration during the world war, An
increase in emigration during the same
period. deaths in the Influenza epidemic of
I9l7-I9IS and war casualties.
The statement noted that the trend of
population from the country TO the city
had been greatly accentuated since 1910.
For the first time in the country S history,
it is said, more than half the entire popula-
ton was now living in urban territory.
Preliminary tabulations, Mr. Rogers
said, showed that 81, SIG, 200 or 5.19 per
cent of the people were living in Incorpor-
ated places of $500 inhabitants or more,
and 50,s66, ,S99 or AL per cent IN rural
territory.
This situation was clearly reflected IN
the figures as to farms in the country
which also were made public yesterday.
These placed the total of farms at 6,459,-
9oS. an increase of only 9S, 400 or 1.5 per
cerft in ten years, as against an increase of
GA, 1870, or 100 per cent, during the dec
ade ended in 1910.
MIR. Rogers stated that while yester-
DAYS figures on the country's population
were preliminary and subject to revision,
the final official population as transmitted
to Congress in December for appointment
purposes was not likely TO be greatly
different, although it might be slightly
for small sections claimed not to have
been properly canvassed by census
enumerators.
Revised figures for a number of cities
and counties are yet to be announced, but
the main work of the 1920 census is COM
pleted after nine months OF labor.
WAR AFFECTED INCREASE.
The growth of the country's population
was not expected to show so large rea-
tive increase during the last decade rs
during the previous decade ended with
1910 because Of the almost complete
stoppage of immigration during the
World War and the heavy emigration
during that period. In the decade end
ing with 1910 the total population of the
United States exclusive of its outlying
possessions, was 81, 972, ,266. During those
ten wears the numerical increase was the
largest of any decade in its history while
the rate of growth was 2i o per cent. The
gain In that decade Was four times what
the total population of the country was
in 1890 when the first Federal census was
taken, while the total population IN 1910
was almost 23 times larger than 1t was
In 1890.
With the outlying possessions, the
United States in 1910 had population
of lOl,1l5,4S7. These possessions in
cluded Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Philippine Islands, the Panama Canal
Zone, Guam and Samoa, and the total of
persons in the military and naval service
abroad was added This year the popu-
lation of the Virgin Islands of the United
States, acquired from Denmark is In
cluded,
The growth of the country's popula-
ton, exclusive of the outlying posses
sions, is set forth briefly in the following