Immigration to the United States Since 1820

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 9, 1911

Immigration to the United States Since 1820

Down to 1820, no statistics with regard to the immigration of foreigners to this country were ever collected by the federal authorities; but from 1820 to 1910 inclusive, 27,894,293 persons have been reported as entering the United States. The net addition to the population was less than these figures would indicate, because the statistics of returning emigrants have been gathered only within very recent years. It would seem to be a conservative estimate to place the net immigration to this country since 1820 at twenty million.