The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-07

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million migrants have entered the
United States in the past century. In
the same time the population of the
country has increased 97.000,000.
Until the world war the effect of
immigration ON population increase
was very marked, amounting to more
than SO per cent in the decade end
ing in 1910. It exceeded 40 per cent
in the ten years ending with the pres
ent year and immigration bureau Of
hcials are of the opinion that had the
war not interviewed the percentage
for this decade would have been
greater than that of the last.
During the first 10 years of the
century or from 1920 to 1880 the
number of immigrants arriving in
the United States was less than one
per cent of the increase IN poulation,
the figures being 143,439 Immigrants
and 3,227,567 population increase. In
the next ten years this one per cent
had grown to IL, the census of 1910
showing a population of 17,069,453
with an increase of 4,203,433 while
during the same period 500, 125 i'm
migrants entered the country.
In the next decade ending in 1850
the population increased 6,122,423
while immigration totalled 1,713,2
or slightly more than 16 per cent.
population increase was S,251,445
while immigrants entering the coun-
try numbered 2,598,214 or more than
rs per cent of the population in
crease.
The next decade saw the popula-
ton increase 7,115,050 and immigra-
ton tota1led 2,314,S24 or slightly more
than % per cent. The percentage de-
creased during the ten years ended
with 1860 owing to an unusually
large increase in population. This
increase was 11,597,412 while the to-
tai of immigration was 2,812,191 or
about 10 per cent. In the decade
ended in 1890 the population increas-
ed 12,791,931 while 5,246,613 immi-
grants entered the country making
the percentage about AZ per cent
In the succeeding decade ended in
1900 there was a sharp decrease in
immigration with the result that per-
sons coming into the country repre-
sented only about % per cent of the
population increase. This was 49,
046,S61 while the number of immi-
grants arriving was 3,S44,420.
While the population increase re-
manned at about the same ratio dur
ing the decade ending in 1910 there
was a very decided increase in the
number of immigrants the former be-
ing 15,977,691 and the latter $685.
3s6.
The estimated increase for the ten
years ended this year 1920) is a.
100000 while the total number of
immigrants during this period was
100000. The percentage ratio thus
was only about 43 per cent, this be-
ing due to the falling off in immi-
grafton during the four years of the
world war.
OF the 100000 immigrants en-
tering the country IN the last 100
years, nearly one-fourth of them, or
S,205,675 came from England, Ire
land, Scotland and Wales. Germany
furnished the second largest number,
5,495,539 and Italy the third largest,
4,100,740. Austro-Hungary was next
behind Italy with 4,O6S,448, while
Russia was fifth with 3,311,4o6. The
Scandinavian countries Denmark,
Norway and Sweden. have sent g.
134,4 of their citizens to the United
States.
The total immigration from France
in the 100 years has been 523,806, the
largest number from that country
20,126, coming here in 1851. Switz-
erland has sent 256, 707 persons to the
United States and the Netherlands
214,5oS. British North America, in
Guiding Canada, has sent S34,450 and
Mexico 217,256.
Belgium and Rumania have sent
the smallest number of any of the
European countries, the total for the
former being 1851 and for the lat
ter 1929. It was not until 1894
that the nationals of these two coun-
tries well as those of Portugal,
Greece and Turkey began coming
across the Atlantic in any apprecia-
BILE numbers.
The total for Portugal is given by
the immigration Bureau as 159,7O2;
for Greece 352,S83 and for Turkey
81 ,404.
Chinese immigrants have number
ed 28S, 1913, beginning in 1853 with
AZ and virtually ending in 1888 with
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