Central and South American Trade. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Year Imports. | Exports. 83,871,069 88,967.862 2,511,610 2,877,743 1906-7 116,681,694 124,009,005 Argentine Republic... 1906 COUNTRIES. Year Imports. Exports. 1905 ....... Bolivia.. 1906 Brazil... 1906 17,543,662 27,827,258 Honduras. 165,000,000 265,000,000 Mexico. 79,000,000 1906 97,000,000 Nicaragua 14,453,000 12,658,000 Panama.. 7,278,464 8,802.000 Paraguay 98,530,622 106,258,618 Peru Dominican Republic... 1906 Ecuador. 1905 For trade with the United States see page 348. For population of Latin-American Republics, see page 599. The above returns were compiled from the reports of the International Bureau of American Republics. The Bureau was established at Washington under the recommendation of the Pan-American Conference of 1800, for the purpose of maintaining closer relations of commerce and friendship between the American Republics. At the Pan-American Conference at Mexico in 1901, its scope was enlarged, while at the Third Pan-American Conference held at Rio de Janeiro in 1906 a resolution was passed for its reorganization upon broader lines, so that it should become a world recognized and practical institution for the development of Pan-American commerce and comity. The list of Directors who have administered the affairs of the Bureau since it was organized is as follows: William E. Curtis, 1890-1893; Clinton Furbish, 1893-1897; Joseph P. Smith, 1897-1898; Frederic Emory, 1898-1899; W. W. Rockhill, 1899-1905; William C. Fox, 1905-1907; John Barrett, 1907. The general object of the International Bureau is, first, to develop commerce and trade and, second, to promote better relations, closer acquaintance, and more intimate association along intellectual, educational, and social as well as material lines among the American Republics.. The Bureau for commercial purposes is in touch, in both North and South America, on the one hand, with manufacturers, merchants, exporters and importers, doing all it can to facilitate the exchange and building up of trade among the American Nations, and on the other hand, with university and college presidents, professors and students, with writers, newspaper men, scientists and travellers, providing them with a large variety of information that will increase their interest in the different American Nations. It publishes numerous hand books, pamphlets and maps, a list of which will be forwarded upon application. The Bureau is also the office or agency, and custodian of archives of the International American Conferences. It has charge of the correspondence relating thereto, the ratification of their resolutions and the issuance of calls for new conferences. Work will soon be begun on the new building of the Bureau, to be located on the Van Ness Park site, Seventeenth and B Streets, Washington, for which Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $750,000 and the different republics $250.000, making a total of $1,000,000 available for the new home and grounds of the Bureau. and the Boer colonies. 2,807,760 43, 495, 754 TURKISH AFRICA: Tri FRENCH AFRICA: Alge ria, Senegal, French Soudan and the Niger, Coast, Congo Region, Somali Coast, Madagascar and Islands.. 1,232, 454 18,073,890 poli and the Mediter- 900,000 30,000,000 8,087,553 117,104,871 Egypt and the Egyptian Soudan, although nominally under the suzerainty of Turkey, are really controlled by Great Britain, and it is only a matter of time as to when they will be incorporated into the British Empire. Adding Egypt and the Soudan to the Empire would increase the figures above given to 3,207,700 square miles and 50,316,019 population. The remaining territory of Africa unoccupied is a part of the great Desert of Sahara and the Independent States of Abyssinia and Liberia, Even this territory, except the last, is destined to pass puder the power of the Europeans, The tabular figures are from The Statesman's Year-Book," Largest Cities of the Earth. POPULATION ACCORDING TO THE LATEST OFFICIAL CENSUSES. l'opal on of Greater London (metropolitan and city police districts), 6,581,372. With suburbs. NOTE-The population of Chinese cities other than Canton, Peking, and Shanghai is omitted, because reports respecting it are utterly untrustworthy. There are forty or more Chinese cities whose inhabitants are numbered by rumor at from 200,000 19 1,000,000 each, but no official censuses have ever been taken; and setting aside consideration of the Oriental tendency to exaggera tion, there is reason to believe that the estimates of population in many instances covered districts of country bearing the same names as the cities, instead of definite municipalities. 523,159 610,408 737,699 994,514 1,231,066 212,267 397,654 Minnesota.. 6,077 780,894 934.943 1,042,390 1,188,044 2,238,943 2,803,346 2,093,889 2,420,982 Mississippi 75.448 Missouri. 136,621 375,651 66,657 140,455 606,526 383,702 682,044 791,305 1,182,012 Montana .... 20.595 Nebraska.. 28.841 6,857 826,073 42.49162.266) New Jersey. 277,426 320,823 373,306 489,555 672,035 61,547 New York................. 1,372,111 1.918,608 2,428,921 439,706 780,773 1,301,826 1,751,394 827,922 1,131,597 1,289,600 1,551,270 1,721,295 2,168,380 2,679,184 3,106,665 39,159 132,159 243,329 122.993 452,402 1,058,910 1,066,300 45,761 42,335 318,300 846,991 376,530 411,588 906,096 1,131,116 1,444,933 1,883,669 93,516 91,874 119,565 153,593 195,810 3,097,394 3,880,735 4,383,759 5,082,871 5.997,853 7,268,894 869,039 992,622 1,071,361 1,399,760 1,617,947 1,893,810 937,903 1,519,467 1,980,329 2,339,511 2,665,260 3,198,062 Oklahoma. 13,294 52,465 90,923 2,311,786 2,906,215 3,521,951 147,545 174,620 217,353 668,507 703,708 705,606 182,719 319,146 3,672,316 4,157,545 61,834 398,331 174,768 313,767 413,536 4,282,891 5,258,014 6,302,115 276,531 345,506 428,556 995,577 1,151,149 1,340,316 328,808 401,570 1,002.717 1,109,801 1,258,520 1,542,359 1,767,518 2,020,616 212,592 604,215 818,579 1,591,749 2,235,523 3,048,710 11,880 40,273 86,786 143,963 207,905 276 749 235,966 280,652 291.948 314,120 315,098 330,551 332,286 332,422 343,641 1,065,116 1,211,405 1,239,797 1,421,661 1,596,318 1,225 153 1,512,565 1,655,980 1,854,184 11,594 23,955 75,116 442,014 618,457 30,945) 805,891 9,633,822 12.866,020 17,069,453 23,191,876 31,443,321 38,558,371 50,155,783 62,622,250 +76.803.387 Population Continental United States (including Alaska), 76,149,386 (1900); Philippines (1903), 7,635,426; Porto Rico, 953,243; Hawaii, 154,001; Guam, 8,661; American Samoa, 5,800. Total population, 85,371,093. Population 1908, estimating Continental United States, about 95,500,000. For population of States by State Censuses of 1905, consult index. The inhabitants of Alaska and the Indian Territory are not included in the enumeration of 1890. The population of Alaska in 1890 was 30,329; of the Indian Territory, 179,321. Total population of the United States in 1890, 62,831,900. The inhabitants of Alaska were not included in the enumeration of 1880. The population was 33,426. Total population of the United States in 1880. 50,189.209. Includes 91.219 persons in the military and naval service of the United States. POPULATION: CENSUS OF 1790.-Connecticut, 237,946; Delaware, 59.096; Georgia, 82,548; Kentucky, 73,677; Maine, 96,540; Maryland, 319,728; Massachusetts, 378,787; New Hampshire, 141,885; New Jersey, 184,189; New York, 340,120; North Carolina, 393,751; Pennsylvania, 434,373; Rhode Island, 68,825; South Carolina, 249,073; Tennessee, 85.691; Vermont, 85,425; Virginia, 747.610. Total U. S., 3,939,214. POPULATION: CENSUS OF 1800.-Connecticut, 251,003; Delaware, 64.273; District of Columbia, 14.093; Georgia, 162.686: Indiana, 5.641; Kentucky, 220.955: Maine, ‡ 151,719; Maryland, 341,548; Massachusetts, 422,845; Mississippi, 8.850; New Hampshire, 183.858: New Jersey, 211,149: New York, 589,051; North Carolina, 478,103; Ohio, 45,865: Pennsylvania, 602,365; Rhode Island, 69.122; South Carolina, 345,591; Tennessee, 105,602: Vermont, 154.465; Virginia, 880,200, Total U. S., 5,308,483. POPULATION: CENSUS OF 1810.-Connecticut, 261.942: Delaware, 72.674: District of Columbia, 24,023; Georgia. 252.433: Illinois, 12.282: Indiana, 34,520: Kentucky, 406.511: Louisiana, 76.556; Maine.1 228,705 Maryland. 380.546; Massachusetts, 472,040; Michigan, 4,762; Mississippi, 40,352: Missouri. 20,845; New Hampshire, 214,460; New Jersey, 245.562: New York, 959.049: North Carolina. 555,500; Ohio. 230.760; Pennsylvania, 810,091; Rhode Island 76.931; Sonth Carolina, 415.115: Tennessee, 261,727; Vermont. 217,895; Virginia, 974,600. Total U. S.. 7.239.881. 1 Maine a part of Massachusetts until admitted in 1820. POPULATION PRIOR TO 1790 (according to Bancroft): 1688, 200.000; 1714, 434,600; 1727, 580,000; 1750, 1,280,000; 1754, 1,425,000; 1760, 1,695,000; 1770, 2,812,000; 1780, 2,945,000 (2,383,000 white, 562,000 colored). Population of the United States. BY STATE CENSUSES TAKEN IN 1905. TEN States took enumerations of their population in the year 1905. The following were the totals of each. (For details of several States see ALMANAC of 1906, pages 404 and 405). PROPORTION OF SEXES IN THE UNITED STATES. (Extracts from Census Bulletin No. 14.) MORE MALES THAN FEMALES IN THE UNITED STATES. The whole population of continental United States was first counted with distinction of sex in 1820. During the seventy years from 1830 to 1900 the absolute excess of males was greater at each census than at any preceding census with one exception-that of 1870— when the excess of males was less than in 1850 and 1860. This reduction of the excess of males between 1860 and 1870, by about 300,000, was doubtless due to the deaths in the Civil War and the diminished immigration during the decade. The greatest relative excess of males was in 1890, when in each 10,000 people there were 242 more males than females. By 1900 this excess had decreased to 216 in 10,000, less than the relative excess in 1890 and 1860, but greater than that at each other census. In continental United States there are 1,638,321 more males than females, or about two in each 100 people. Probably in the population of the world, as a whole, and certainly in that half of it which has been counted with distinction of sex, there are several millions more males than females. In continental United States, however, the relative excess of males is greater than the average for all countries. Europe has an excess of females; every other continent, so far as known, has an excess of males. The divisions of continental United States with the smallest proportion of males are the District of Columbia (47.4 per cent.), Massachusetts (48.7 per cent.), and Rhode Island (49.1 per cent.); those with the largest are Wyoming (62.9 per cent.), and Montana (61.6 per cent. As a rule sparsely settled regions have an excess of males and densely settled regions an excess of females. CITIES HAVE MORE FEMALES THAN MALES. American cities as a rule have more females than males. In the 1.861 cities, each having in 1900 at least 2,500 inhabitants, there were 201,959 more females than males, and this notwithstanding the many western cities which contained more males than females, and the enormous number of foreign-born in the country, five-ninths of them male, and a large proportion of them living in the cities. This tendency of American cities to develop a population having a majority of females had increased since 1890, when, in the 1,490 cities, each having at least 2,500 inhabitants, there were 6,929 more males than females. While the excess of 6,929 males in American cities in 1890 became an excess of 210,959 females in American cities in 1900, the excess of 1,519,559 males in country districts in 1890 became an excess of 1,840,280 males in 1900. Or, expressing the facts in ratios, of each 1,000 inhabitants of such cities in 1890, 300 were males and in 1900, 497 were males; of each 1,000 inhabitants living outside these cities in 1890, 519 were males, and in 1900 520 were males. The difference thus in the number of males or of females between an average thousand of city and of country population in 1890 was 19, and in 1900, 23. WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN. Notwithstanding the great excess of males in the total population of the United States, there are two periods of life at which the reported number of females is greater. One, extending from about eighty-three years of age to the end of life, is probably due mainly to the longer average life of woman; the other, from sixteen to twenty-five, is probably apparent rather than real, and due mainly to the greater number of women who claim, erroneously, to belong to this age period. In 1900, among the 13,367,147 persons attending school, 499 in each 1,000 were male and 501 female; in 1890, in the same class, 510 per 1,000 were male and 490 female. INCREASING PROPORTION OF GIRLS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN. In all races and in all parts of the country there has been a decided increase since 1890 in the proportion of females among persons attending school. This increase is due mainly to the increase in the proportion of young women among persons at least fifteen years of age attending school, the increase at this age period being nearly five times as great as at any other, and more than three times as great as the average increase for all ages. DEATH RATE HIGHER FOR MALES THAN FEMALES. The death rate of males in the registration area of the United States in 1900 was 19.0 per 1,000, and that of females 16.6 per 1,000, the former having a death nate higher by about one-seventh than the latter. In the 346 registration cities the death rate of males was 20.0, and that of females 17.2 per 1,000, the male rate exceeding the female by onesixth. In the rest of the registration area the male death rate was 15.8 and that of females 15.0 per 1,000, the male rate exceeding the female by one-nineteenth, Wisconsin.. Wyoming Total Ohio... Oklahoma. Pennsylvania South Carolina. Texas 3,204,541 3,097,574 5,316,865 218,040 294,037 1,578,900, 1.469,810 2,869,353 58,184 34.347 75,116 Including all persons of negro descent. Including Indians taxed and not taxed. 458,734 4,060,204 96.901 371 27 43 15,680 367,524 65,748 394.582 985,250 6,141,664 134,519 419.050 5.528 557,807 8.508! 380.714 17,746 1,540,186 179,357 2,426,669) 63,777 272,465 44,747 342,771 19.461 1192,855 111,364 496,304 22,451 915,233 515,971 2 057,911 17,415 89,051 18.831 31 11.945 1.105 10.397 2,501 4,951 136.845 |
