Abstract
The principal sources of population data are official censuses, administrative enumerations, and registration records. The earliest of these in the Americas, at other than a very local level, date from around the beginning of the period covered in the work, and cover Spanish colonial territories which later became independent nations. Individual British colonies in North America also organized enumerations at such a comparatively early date, though the first census covering the United States was not taken until after independence. Such of this early material as has seemed at all reliable, even in a very approximate way, has been included in table 1. Similar material has also been included for the cities shown in table 4.
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Statistics for Colombia 1825-51 come from Miguel Urrutia and Mario Arrubla (eds.), Compendio de Esta-disticas Historicas de Colombia (Bogota, 1970).
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Kenneth Buckley, in M.C. Urquhart and K.A.H. Buckley, Historical Statistics of Canada (Cambridge, 1965), estimated that the Indian population in the western provinces and territories was under-enumerated by about 30,000 in 1851 and 40,000 in 1861.
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SOURCES:- The national publications listed on pp. xiv-xvi; UN, Demographic Yearbook; and, for Latin American countries (except Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico) from 1900 to about 1950, James W. Wilkie (ed.), Statistical Abstract of Latin America vol. 20 (Los Angeles, 1982).
SOURCES: The national publications on p. xiv-xvi; UN, Demographic Yearbook; and League of Nations, Statistical Year-Book. Canadian statistics to 1920 come from O. J. Firestone, Canada’s Economic Development, 1867-1953 (London, Bowes & Bowes, 1958).
SOURCES: The main sources used have been Imre Ferenczi and Walter F. Willcox, International Migrations, vol. 1 (New York, 1929)
UN, Sex and Age of International Migrants: Statistics for 1918–1947 (1953)
Net movements of foreigners 1908–75 are given in Markos J. Mamalakis, Historical Statistics of Chile, vol. 2. (Westport, Conn., 1980).
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Mitchell, B.R. (1993). Population and Vital Statistics. In: International Historical Statistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13071-9_1
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