U. S. Population, 1940-1930, by Age Groups and Sex (1940 data are estimates based on a preliminary tabulation of a 4 percent cross-section of the 1940 census returns; 1930 totals include persons of unknown age). The rural non-farm population (1940) is estimated at 27,094,497, as against 23,662,710 in 1930. Age of White Population, by Sex and Residence, 1940 and 1930 Source: United States Bureau of the Census (1940 data are estimates based on a preliminary tabulation of a 5 percent cross-section of the 1940 census returns. Figures for white population in 1930 have been revised to include Mexicans who were classified with "Other races" in the 1930 Census Reports. 1930 totals include persons of unknown age). AGE, SEX, AND COLOR COMPOSITION OF CITIES (Preliminary): 1940 The average age of the population increased between 1930 and 1940 in each of the 14 cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants in 1940. In each of the cities of this size-group the proportion of persons 65 years of age or over increased between 1930 and 1940, and the proportion of persons under 20 years of age decreased. The returns also show that 11 of the 14 cities had more females than males in 1940 and that the proportion of males decreased between 1930 and 1940 in 13 of the 14 cities. and color composition for individual cities may be changed somewhat in the final tabulation, it is clear that in general the proportion of females and of nonwhites increased during the past decade in almost all of the cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants. The Inquiry Relates to 14 Cities. The data reveal the fact that in each of these 14 cities the nonwhite population increased more rapidly than the white population. In 8 of the cities the white population actually decreased; whereas the nonwhite population increased in all of the 14 cities. These data are based on a preliminary tabulation of a 5 percent cross-section of the 1940 census of population returns. Although the figures on sex Non-whites Increasing in Large Cities The more rapid increase of the nonwhite population between 1930 and 1940 suggests a greater proportion of nonwhites among the migrants to these large cities than in the 1930 populations of these cities. The increase between 1930 and 1940 in the proportion of females in these cities similarly suggests a greater proportion of females among the migrants to these large cities than in the 1930 populations of these cities. The possible difference in the rate of natural increase (excess of births over deaths) between nonwhites and whites and between females and males is not sufficient to account for the large differences observed in their respective rates of growth between 1930 and 1940. MEDIAN AGES, BY COLOr, sex, resiDENCE: 1940 AND 1930 (1940 data are estimates based on a preliminary tabulation of a 5 percent cross-section of the 1940 census returns. Figures for white population in 1930 have been revised to include Mexicans, who were classified with "Other races" in the 1930 Census Reports). Jewish People of the U. S., Distribution by States, 1917-1937 Source: Jewish Statistical Bureau of the Synagogue of America, H. S. Linfield, Director State Total Per Total 11,086 0.47 United States.. Alabama. Arizona. 2,363,939 1,013 0.38 (The Jewish population of the world was estimated in 1936 at 16,240,000, by the Jewish Scientific Institute, Wilno, Lithuania.) SUMMARY OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, 1908-1940 1,696,000 7,213 0.39 2,918,000 241,000 Jewish People Here and Abroad, 1938 Source: Compilations from latest available data, by the American Jewish Committee, and the Jewish Statistical Bureau of the Synagogue Council of America, H. S. Linfield, director JEWS IN THE WORLD, BY COUNTRIES The American Jewish Committee, which gives the figures in the table below, estimated the Jewish population of the world, in 1939, as follows: Europe, 8,939,608; Africa, 598,339; Asia, 839,809; Australasia, 27,016; the Americas, 5,283,487; world total-15,688,259. The regional division above follows that of the United States Census Bureau, except that Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia are here not considered as parts of the South but of the North. a change introduced ten years ago to meet the requirements of the distribution of the Jews. The 1936 U. S. Census of religious denominations gave the number of members of Jewish congregations as 4,641,124, as against 4,081,242 in 1926, the figures for 1926 representing all Jews in communities having congregations. The United States religious census of 1906 credited the Jews with 101,457 heads of families, principally male heads, and the census of 1916 fixed the number of heads of families (including seat holders and other contributors) but admittedly incomplete, at 357,135. There were Jews in the original American colonies before 1650. In New York, then New Amsterdam, there were Jews in 1654, and in the fall of that year a company of Jewish refugees arrived from Brazil and settled in the colony. The Congregation Sheerith Israel (Remnant of Israel) was founded in 1656. The first minister was Saul Moreno (Brown) who came from Newport, R. I., and the synagogue was on Mill St., now South William St. DISTRIBUTION OF THE JEWS IN THE CIty of new YORK BY BORoughs, 1937 United States Immigration Statistics Source: United States Department of Justice TOTAL ALIENS ADMITTED FROM ALL COUNTRIES: FISCAL YEARS Year Number Year Number Year Number Immigration from the close of the Revolutionary War to 1820 is estimated at 250,000. NATIONAL ORIGIN ANNUAL IMMIGRATION QUOTAS (Note: Quotas are available only for persons who are eligible to citizenship and admissible.) Countries 307 Palestine. 869 Philippine Islands. **French mandate. German quota includes Austrian of 1,413. Aliens Admitted and Departed, by Countries Source: United States I epartment of Justice; data cover years ended June 30 All countries. Soviet Russia. 40 41 114 138 50,454 26,541 9,143 3,326 Spain. 14 Other Europe. Bulgaria. 87 135 21 3 Czechoslovakia. 244 140 20 China.. 643 1,003 998 816 Finland. 233 244 231 850 France. Great Britain: England. 2,575 4,801 36 Palestine. 78 Syria.. 372 America. 6 Canada. 77 Newfoundland. 18 Mexico. 52 West Indies. Scotland.. 17 10 Africa. 5 Australia. 81 4 New Zealand. 185 Philippine Islands. 10 Other Pacific Islands. 4 Other America.. |