MIGRATION AND BUSINESS CYCLES
TABLE 4.—PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF IMMIGRANTS ACCORDING TO “OLD” AND
“NEW” SOURCES, BY YEARS: 1870-1924.
100 per cent==the total number of immigrants for whom country of origin is known
YEAR YEAR
ENDING “Op” “NEw”: OTHER! | ENDING Mor “NEw”: | OTHERd
June 30 June 30
1S70.. ES 2 2.5 15:1 1900. ... E231 72.4 4.4
1571 E70 EE: YET x [ior 23.7 73.6 2.6
1872... WEST'S Fe3.3 13.0 1902..... 21.4 75.0% | 3.6
1573... BS 6 4.9 13.5 fn 23.8 72.1 4.1
S74... N76 0 7.8 16.1 1994... .[WE26.3 | 63.450 8 4.9
1875... 170.4 10.0 19.6" Mvons.... [E256 69.9 4.5
1576.00] 61.2 9.9 28.8 1906... (E20: 2 75.7 4.0
1877... ....08061.6 13.3 25.1 L907. a 7 76:2 6.0
1873... .. B62 6 10.8 26.6 11908... E822 8 66.9 10.4
1879... ... 065.1 10.5 24.5 11909..... 19.6 68.5 11.9
1880... "W679 8.3 23.7 1910... . 1.19.4 70.9 9.6
1887... . 70.6 8.3 21.0 1911... .\ 23.0 65.2 | 11.8
ASK] ti, 714 10.8 17.8 1912... WR 19.2 68.1 Kk 12.7
1883 0... e745 12.2 13.4 Tis. 15.3 74.9 | 9.9
1SS4..... 73 4 14.1 12.5 1914... .. S135 75.2 11.3
1885...... 1873.0 16.40 10.7 1915... . [W242 37.4 38.3
1836... ..|Ne76.5 22.1 3 1016... IWe17.1 32.2 50.7
1837.1... . (A721 26.4 1.4 1917. ....(130 32.2 54.8
18ST... (72.6 25.8: | 1.5 1918... U1. 7 16.4 v1.9
1889......| 74.9 23.1 2.0 1019. ... BR 12. 8 4.9 82.5
1590... |NN62.8 35.3 1.8 l1920.... oo 38.3 41.5
1S91......(We56.7 41.2 2.1001. SEE CR EE 5 3 1.5
(S92 1. (51 0 46.6 1.5 192%... J. ad 44 9 29.4
1893.0... . e539 44.9 1.2 1923... 2° 4 29.4 40.7
1894... ... 52.1 44.9 3.0 11924. . . 2! 23.2 48.0
1893... ....(We34. 7 43.2 2.1
1896... ..[We40.0 57.0 2.9
1897..." .\Be39.0 56.8 4 2
1808... EE34. 5 62.4 Sas
1399..... |[WEI5. 9 68.0 oa
sFor 1870-1910, from the United States Immigration Commission, Statistical Review of Immigration
1820-1910; for 1911-1924, computed from statistics published by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration. Prior
to 1906, immigrants were recorded by the countrv from which they departed: thereafter by the country
of last permanent residence.
bThe “old” sources include the countries of northern and western Europe, namely: Belgium, Denmark,
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
¢The “‘new’’ sources include the countries of eastern and southern Europe now known as Austria,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania,
Russia, Spain, Turkey in Europe, and certain other small European countries designated as ‘“‘other Europe;”
also Turkey in Asia.
d“Other countries” includes all sources of immigration not included in “old’’ and ‘“‘new’’ sources as
above defined. In recent years most of this group came from Canada and Mexico. The fact noted in this
chapter that immigrants from or through Canada were, in earlier periods, recorded incompletely or not at
all, limits the comparability of the above percentage distributions.
forty groups for which statistics are given by the Bureau of Immigration under the
caption ‘races or peoples.” For a discussion of these “races or peoples,” see the Reports
of the United States Immigration Commission, Vol. 9, Dictionary of Races or Peoples.
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