The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
COUNTRIES GROWTH IS 14.9 PER CENT
 SINCE 1910 COUNT
Figures Announced Does Not Include Populations of 0utIy- ing Possessions, Which
 Will Raise the Total
By Associated Pres.

w dSIiiIS tOA, OStoDSI (. The 1920 population of conti- mental United States was an- nounced today by the census bureau as 105,683,108. This was an increase of 13,710,842, or 14.9 per cent since 1910.
 Today's total does not include the
 population of outlying possessions
 which will be announced as soon military and naval service abroad
 arc tabulated. It is estimated.
 however. chat those possessions
 have t2.25O.O0O inhabitants. SO that
 the total number of people living
 under the American flag Is in
 round numbers I1S.OO0,OOO.
 The figures for continental United States compare with 91,972,266 ten years ago and 75,994,575 twenty years ago. The increase for the last decade, however, fell 2,266,S4s, or 6.1 per cent below that of the preceding decade.
 Director Rogers of the census bureau in formal statement attributed this reduction to the almost complete stop page of immigration during the world war an increase in emigration during the same period, deaths in the influ- enza epidemic of 1917-1S and war casualties.
 The statement noted that the trend of population from the country to the city had been greatly accentuated since 1910.
 CITIES LEAD COUNTRY
 For the first time in the country's history, 1t said, more than half the en- tire population was not living in urban territory.
 Preliminary tabulations. MT. Rogers said, showed that 54,s16.269 or SIS per cent of the people were living in in corporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more and 50,s66,S99 or 4S.1 per cent in rural territory.
 This situation was clearly reflected in the figures as to farms in the coun- try which also were made public today. These placed the total of farms at G., 45s,9s an Increase of only s,fs6; or Is per cent, fr ten years as against an increase of 624.l30 or 10.9 per cent during the decade ending 1910.
 Mir. Rogers stated that while today s figures or, the country's population were preliminary and subject to revi : sion, the final official population as transmitted to Congress In December for apportionment purposes was not likely to be greatly different, although it might be slightly larger through the addition of population for small sections claimed not to have been properly canvassed by census enumera- tors.
 REVISED FIGURES TO COME
 Revised figures for a number of cities and counties are yet to be announced, but the main work of the 1920 census is completed after nine months of labor
 ''The population of the United States as announced today" said MT. Rogers "is 105,6s3.10s. as compared with z total in 1910 of s1.s72ss6, and in 1900 of 75,e94.575. This is an increase since 1910 of 13,710,S42. or 14.s per cent as compared with an increased from 1900 to 1910 of 15.97S,Ss1, or II per cent.
 The large falling off in the rate of growth for the country as whole as shown by these figures is due mainly to an almost complete cessation of i'm migration for more than five years pre- ceding the taking of the census in January last and in some degrees also to an epidemic of influenza and to the casualties resulting from the worl6 war.
 '"The results of the census in 1920 at first glance may seem somewhat dis appointing and opsn to question pos sibly. but the substantial accuracy of the enumeration is fully borne out by comparison with estimated based upon the probable excess of births over deaths through the decade and the excess of mm fgration over emigration.
 PROBABLE BIRTH RATE
 From all available data, it may be roughly estimated that the annual ex- cess of births over deaths throughout the United States is approximately 105 per cent during the decade. Thus the nearly 92.000, 900 persons present in the United States in 1910 might be expected to increase to about 101, 100000 in 1929 In addition the excess of immigration over emigration during the decade was approximately 3.733.o00. Since the bulk of these foreign born persons came to the country during the first four years of the decade 1t may be roughly esti- mated that the increase due to excess of births over deaths in their families was about 10 per cent Thus the pop ulation of the country may be assumed to have been augmented by about 5,100,0O during the decade through ex- cess of immigration over emigration would indicate therefore, a possible small fraction of 1 per cent more than the total shown by the returns of the 1920 census.
 'sThe figures of the present census