| People | Immigrant aliens 1907 | Emigrant aliens 1908 |
| Number | Per cent. of total | Number | Per cent. of total | Number departed per 100 admitted |
| Jewish | 149182 | 12.1 | 7702 | 2.0 | 5 |
| Bulgarian, Servian and Montenegrin | 27174 | 2.2 | 5965 | 1.6 | 22 |
| Croatian and Slovenian | 47826 | 3.9 | 28584 | 7.5 | 60 |
| English | 51126 | 4.1 | 5320 | 1.4 | 10 |
| German | 92936 | 7.5 | 14418 | 3.8 | 15 |
| Greek | 46283 | 3.7 | 6763 | 1.8 | 14 |
| Irish | 38706 | 3.1 | 2441 | .6 | 6 |
| Italian, North | 1564 | 4.2 | 19507 | 5.1 | 37 |
| Italian, South | 242497 | 19.6 | 147828 | 38.8 | 60 |
| Lithuanian | 25884 | 2.1 | 3388 | .9 | 13 |
| Magyar | 60071 | 4.9 | 29276 | 7.7 | 48 |
| Polish | 138033 | 11.2 | 46727 | 12.3 | 33 |
| Scandinavian | 53425 | 4.3 | 5801 | 1.5 | 11 |
| Slovak | 42041 | 3.4 | 23573 | 6.2 | 56 |
| Total | 1237341[3] | | 381044 | | 32 |
| [1] All peoples with an inward movement of less than 25,000 omitted. |
| [2] From Emigration Conditions in Europe, pp. 39-40. |
| [3] All European immigrants, including Syrians. |