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Area and Population (Progress and Present Condition)

Progress and Present Condition.

The following table gives the total white and colored population of the United States, at each of the ten censuses from 1790 to 1890 : Increase Year.

White.

Free Colored.

Slave.

Total. per cent. per ann. 1790 3,172,006 59,527 697,681 3,929,214 - 1800 4,306,446 108,435 893,602 5,308,483 3.25 1810 5,862,073 186,446 1,191,362 7,239,881 3.66 1820 7,862,166 233,634 1,538,022 9,633,822 3.30 1830 10,537,378 319,599 2,009,043 12,866,020 3.35 1840 14,195,805 386,293 2,487,355 17,069,453 3.26 1850 19,553,068 434-495 3,204,313 23,191,876 3.58 1860 26,922,537 488,070 3,953,760. 31,443,321 3.52 1870 33,589,377 4,880,009 38,558,371 2.26 1880 43,402,970 6,580,793 50,155,783 2.97 1890 - - 62,622,250 2.50 -- These figures do not include Chinese (105,688) in 1880 and Indians. The following table shows the area and population at the census of 1880 and of June 1, 1890, and population per square mile in 1890 of the States and Territories arranged in geographical divisions:

Area:

Population in English sq. miles. 1880.

Population in 1890.

Pop., per sq. mile, 1890.