Sex Age
Year Ending
June 30
 Total
Number
 Male
 Female
 Under 14
 14 to 45
 45 and Over
1891 560,319 354,059 296,200 95,879 405,843 58,597
1892 623,084 385,781 237,303 89,167 491,839 42,078
1893 502,917 315,845 187,072 57,392 419,701 25,824
1894 314,467 186,247 128,220 41,755 258,162 14,550
1895 279,948 159,924 120,024 33,289 233,543 13,116
1896 343,267 212,466 130,801 52,741 254,519 36,007
1897 230,832 135,107 95,725 38,627 165,181 27,024
1898 229,299 135,775 93,524 38,267 164,905 26,127
1899 311,715 195,277 116,438 43,983 248,187 19,545
1900 448,572 304,148 144,424 54,624 370,382 23,566
1901 487,918 331,055 156,863 62,562 396,516 28,840
1902 648,743 466,369 182,374 74,063 539,254 35,426
1903 857,046 613,146 243,900 102,431 714,053 40,562
1904 812,870 549,100 263,770 109,150 657,155 46,565
1905 1,026,499 724,914 301,585 114,668 855,419 56,412
1906 1,100,735 764,463 336,272 136,273 913,955 50,507
1907 1,285,349 927,976 355,373 138,344 1,100,771 46,234
1908 782,870 506,912 275,958 112,148 630,671 40,051
1909 751,786 519,969 231,817 88,393 624,876 38,517
1910 1,041.570 736,038 305,532 120,509 868,310 52,751
Year
Debarred from
Landing
Returned
Within
One Year
Returned
Within
Three Years		Able to Read
but not Wruite
[See note 1]
Unable to
read or Write
[See note 1]
1892 2,164 637


1893 1,053 577
59,582 61,038
1894 2,389 417
16,784 41,614
1895 2,394 189
2,612 42,302
1896 2,799 238
5,066 78,130
1897 1,617 263
1,572 43,008
1898 3,030 199
1,416 43,057
1899 3,798 263
1,022 60,446
1900 4,246 356
2,097 93,576
1901 3,516 363
3,058 117,587
1902 4,974 465
2,917 162,188
1903 8,769 547
3,341 185,667
1904 7,994 300 473 3,953 168,903
1905 11,879 98 747 8,209 230,882
1906 12,371 61 615 4,755 265,068
1907 13,064 70 925 5,829 337,573
1908 10,902 114 1,955 2,310 172,293
1909 10,411 58 2,066 2,431 191,049
1910 24,270 23 2,672 4,571 253,569

Note 1: Prior to 1895 the figures are for persons over 16 years; from

1895 to 1910 for persons 14 years of age and over.

The question of Oriental immigration has caused much comment in our

Pacific Coast States for several years. Before 1900 the total number of

Japanese coming to America seldom reached 1,500 a year. Since that time

about 12,000 have come each year, except in 1903 when 20,000 came and

1907 when the number reached 30,000. Seventy per cent of this number,

however, went to Hawaii. Over-population and economic depression in