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the United States during the period 1820—1930 totals 1,213,000
persons, or 3.2 per cent. of the aggregate number of immigrants
received during this period. (In comparison, it may be remarked
that the population of Sweden was at that time 1.3 per cent. of
that of Europe). The following figures give some indication of
the relative and absolute contribution of the Swedens to the po-
pulation of the United States (exclusive of Alaska):
Year Total Population of U. S. A. Born in Sweden
Number per 1000 of the total population per 1000 of the foreign-born population
1850 23.192.000 3.600 0.2 1.6
1860 31.443.000 18.600 0.6 4.5
1870 38.558.000 97.300 2.5 17.5
1880 50.156.000 194.300 3.9 29.1
1890 62.948.000 478.000 7.6 51.7
1900 75.995.000 582.000 7.5 56.3
1910 91.972.000 665.000 7.2 49.2
1920 105.711.000 625.600 6.0 44.9
1930 122.775.000 595.300 4.9 41.9
It will appear from the above table that, even when it was
at its highest, the Swedish-born part of the population of the
U.S.A. only constituted three quarters of one per cent. As the
period of large-scale immigration becomes more and more remote,
the number of Swedish-born inhabitants decreases, amounting at
the census of 1930 to roughly 600,000, or about one half per
cent. of the total population. A different picture results, how-
ever, if the number of Swedish-born immigrants is compared
with total white immigrant population. In 1900 Swedish im-
migrants constituted 5.6 per cent. of this immigrant population,
and as late as 1930 the figure was still as high as over 4 per cent.
In order to get a true picture of the total Swedish stock in
U.S.A., account must also be taken of the children born of
Swedish parents. In 1930 there were about 680,000 persons both
of whose parents were Swedes, 190,000 persons with Swedish
fathers alone, and 100,000 with Swedish mothers alone, i. e. a
total of about 970,000 Swedes of the second generation. As
regards the third and fourth generations no statistics are avail-
able, but on the basis of the figures for the second generation