United States Population Growth

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 5, 1911

United States Population Growth

The population of the continental United States is 91,972,266, an increase of 15,977,691, or 21 per cent, in the decade, as against a gain of 13,046,861, or 20.7 per cent, in the preceding ten years. At the first census, in 1790, the population was 3,929,214, slightly larger than the number in the single State of Texas at the present time. In the decade just closed the Pacific States have gained 73.5 per cent; the mountain States, 57.3; the West South Central, 34.5; the East South Central, 11.4; the South Atlantic, 16.8; the West North Central, 12.5; the East North Central, 14.2; the Middle Atlantic, 25; and the New England, 17.2.