towns having a population of 2,500 or more. The same territory in 1900
and 1890, similarly classified as urban, contained 40.5 and 36.1 per
cent, respectively, of the total population of the country. In all but
two States, Montana and Wyoming, the urban population has increased
faster than the rural population. The increase, since 1900, in the
population living in urban territory was 11,035,841 or 34.9 per cent,
while the increase in population living in rural territory during the
same period was 4,941,850 or 11.1 per cent. For the United States as a
whole, therefore, the rate of increase for the population of urban areas
was three times that for the population living in rural territory. In