Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
1O5,683,106 TOTAL
POPULATION SHOWN
MONUMENTAL us.
Including Outlying Posses
sions, 100000 Persons
Estimated Under FLAG.

! WI thS les VI Tie SoH'
tinental United States now live 1885,
6S3.10S persons, the census bureau
announced yesterday afternoon in ar
official announcement of the total
population Of the United States. This
shows an increase of 12,710.s42. or H.!
per cent. in the decade since 1910.
The total does not include the popu.
lation of outlying possessions, which
will be announced as soon as figures
for Alaska and the military and naval
posts abroad are tabulated. Census
| bureau officials estimate, however.
that those possessions have 12.25000C
Inhabitants. so that the total mum
Der of people living under the Ameri-
can flag is in round numbers 11S,00O,-
600.
Comparison Of Figures.
The figures for continental United
States compare with 91,972266 ter
years ago and 75,994,575 twenty years
ago. The increase for the last ten
decades. however. well 2,266.S49 or 81
per cent, below that of the preceding
decade.
Director Rogers of the census bu-
reau. in formal statement. attributed
| this reduction 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 1917-1S and was
| casualties.
| The statement noted that the trend
| of population from the country to
the city had been greatly accumulated
since 1910. For the first time in the
| country's history. it said, more than
half the entire population now was
| living in urban territory, as the bu-
| reau defines it.
| Preliminary tabulations, Mr.. Rog-
| ers said showed that 54,S16.209, or
| 51.9 per cent, of the people were liv-
| ing in Incorporated places of $500
inhabitants or more. and 50,S66.S99
| or 4S.l per cent, in rural territory.
Reflected in Farm Statisties.
This situation was clearly reflected
in the figures as to farms in the
country. which also were made pub
of farms at 6.459.99S. an increase of
only S,496, or is per cent, in ten
years, as against an increase of 624,
! 100, or 1913 per cent, during the dec
ade ended in 1910.
Mr.. Rogers stated that, while to-
days figures on the country's popu-
| lation were preliminary and subject
! to revision, the final official popula-
| ton as transmitted to Congress in
December for apportionment pur-
poses was not likely to be greatly
different, although it might be slight
| ly larger through the addition of
population for small sections claimed
not to have been properly canvassed
1 by census enumerators, which now
are being Investigated.
Revised figures for a number of
| cities and counties are yet to be an
nounced, but the main work of the
| 1920 census is completed after nine
! months of labor.
Figures Substantially Accurate.
1.-THE results Of the census of popu-
lation in 1920 at first glance may
seem somewhat disappointing and
Substantial accuracy Of the enumer-
alton in January is fully borne out
iby comparison with estimates based
upon the probable excess of births
lover deaths throughout the decade
and the excess of immigration over
it may be roughly estimated that the
!annual excess of births over deaths
Throughout the United States is ap-
proximately 1915 per cent during the
decade. Thus. the nearly 100000
persons present in the United States
in 1910 might be expected to increase
to about 101. 100000 In 1920.
| I'm addition, the excess of immi-
grafton over emigration during the
decade was approximately 3.733.000.
Since the bulk Of these foreign born
persons came to the country during
the first four years of the decade it
may be roughly estimated that the
increase due to excess of births over
ideaths in their families was about 10
lper cent. Thus, the population of the
!country may be assumed to have been
augmented by about 100000 during
1.-THE decade through excess of immi-
Igration over emigration. The two
estimates taken together would indi-
cate, therefore, probable population
of los 100000, or only small fraction
hov he fntn
!shown by the returns of the four
iteenth census.
Urban and Rural Population.
OF the .1o5.6s3.1os persons enumer-
lated in the fourteenth census, pre-
,liminary tabulations show that 54,-
|s1s,2o9. or 519 per cent, are living in
incorporated places Of 900 go inhabi,
lper cent, in rural territory. At the
census Of 1910 the corresponding per-
lcentages were 46.3 and 53.7, respec-
lively, showing loss of Sc per cent
in the proportion for the population
living in rural territory.
'"To show more clearly the change in
the proportion of the population liv-
ing in rural territory now as COM
pared with ten years ago. the rural
population can be divided into two
classes, namely, 9,S64,196, or SO pei
cent Of the total population living in
incorporated places of less than 2.5OC
inhabitants and 41.002,70e. or 1873 pei
cent of the total population, living
in what may be called purely country
districts.
At the census of 1910 the population
living in incorporated places of less
than $500 Inhabitants formed S.S pei
cent, while the population living IN
purely country districts formed 44.s
per cent of the total population.
rt. in hn
population as a whole. as before
stated, was 14.9 per cent. but during
the decade thel ., has been an increase
in that portion of the population liv-
ing in urban territory OF 12.l92.S26
or 2S.6 per cent, and in that portion
or only 81 per cent and if the com
parison is extended to cover the two
classes of rural territory, 1T appears
that that portion living in incor-
porated places of less than $500 in
\ habitants shows an increase of 1,745..
portion living in purely country dis
| tricts shows an actual decrease o.
227,s55, or six-tenths of per cent.
Percentage Of Increase in States.
The percentages Of increase shown
for the several states vary greatly
| due in part to the causes which hav'
been noted as affecting the increas
| whole. but also in part to the abnor
NAL internal movement of population
| required to meet the excessive de
mands Of the war work in certain
sections. For three states Missis
sippi. Nevada and Vermoro-ther
ton. the largest decrease being TO
Nevada, SIS per cent.
| Stat, Figures.
ponnIaf; Ho1,res oP sta fes announce,