Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-08
|q20 !, s, CENSUS
 |SH0WS POPULATION
 \ OF 105 MILLIONS
'stimates Figures for -Outly irg Possessions to 1n-
 crease Total
[ALF OF PEOPLE RESIDE IN CITIES
'oures Indicate Many More Farms Than in 1910; May be
 Necessary to Reapp0rtiOn
 Representation in Congress

Wa shington, Oct. 7.-The 1920 pop
 ation of continental United States
 Is announced today by the census
 reau as O5,683,10 This was an crease of 13,710.S42, or 14.9 per Int since 1910.
 Today's total does not include the 'rulations of outlying possessions k:ch will be announced as soon as
 figures for Alaska and the mil kry and naval services abroad are bulated. It is estimated however ese possessions have 12,250,000 in- Ebitants, so the total number of
 ople living under the American Sg is in round numbers 118,000,000 Se figures for continental United htes compare with 91,972,260 ten hrs ago and 75,994,575 twenty years b. The increase for the last decade
 Il 2,266,849, or 6.1 per cent below bt of the preceding decade.
 Director rogers of the census bu- ku, in a formal statement, attribut- 1 this reduction to the almost com Ete stoppage of immigration dur
 the world war an increase in inn
 gration during the same period bths in the influenza epidemic of t7-18 and war casualties.
 Half in Cities
 The statement noted the trend of pulation from the country to the y had been gretlay accentuated
 Ice 1910. For the first time in the hntry's history, it said, more than
 If the entire population was now fng in urban territory. This situation was clearly reflected i the figures as to farms in the intry, which also were made public Bay. These placed the total of
 ms at 6,459,998, an incresae of
 y 98,496, or 1.5 per cent in 10 Prs, as against an increase of 624,- p, or 1O.9 per cent during the de- De ended in 1910.
 MT. Rogers stated that while to- E's figures on the country's pop ftion were primary and subject to Rision the final official population
 transmitted to Congress in Decem-
 for apportionment purposes was
 likely to be greatly different, all Pugh it might be slightly larger rough the addition of population
 small sections claimed not to have en properly canvassed by census hmerators. Revised figures for number of pes and counties are yet to be an- unced, but the main work of the RO census is completed after nine Pnths of work. he growth of the country's popula- n was not expected to show so lge relative increase during the It's decade as during the previous fade ended with 1910 because off Emigration during the World War
 the heavy emigration during that Flod. In the decade ending with
 o the total population Nof the |ited States, exclusive of its out ng possessions, was 91,972,266. |ring those ten years the numerical Rrease was the largest of any de- De in its history while the rate growth was 21.0 per cent. The In in that decade was four times Pat the total population of the i pntry was in 1790 when the first peral census was taken, while the |al population in 1910 was in 179O. times larger than it was in 179O. tn the outlying possessions, the Pited States in 1910 had a popula- |n or 1o1,115,487. These posses pns included Alaska, Hawaii, Porto co' the Philippine Islands, the mama Canal Zone, Guam and 'moa, and the total of persons in military and naval service abroad IS added. This year the population
 the Virgin Islands of the United ates acquired from Denmark is ciuded. The growth of the coun- ys population, exclusive of the ltiylng possessions, is set forth lefily in the following table.
 m. Yr. Popula'n. In'se. P. C1