The Scandinavian Element in the United States / University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

by Kendric Charles Babcock

STATISTICS OF IMMIGRANTS FROM DENMARK, NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

The number of alien passengers and immigrants from the Scandinavian countries arriving in the United States, 1820-1913, together with the total number of alien arrivals according to the statistics of the United States, and, where available, of the Scandinavian kingdoms. The figures from 1820-1840 are at best a safe minimum. The earlier figures reported by the Scandinavian kingdoms, given in round numbers, are probably estimates based upon partial data. See United States Reports of the Bureau of Commerce and Navigation, Annual Statistical Abstracts and the report of the Dillingham Commission (1911); Sundbärg, Bidrag til Utvandringsfrägen frän Befolkningsstatistisk Synpunkt; Nelson, Scandinavians in the United States, I. 253-264c; Bulletin de l’Institute Internationale de Statistique, III, ii, 125-127; Statesman’s Year-Books, 1906-14.

UNITED STATES STATISTICS						EUROPEAN STATISTICS
	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandinavians	Total Aliens	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandinavians
1820	20	3		23	8,385	...	...		...
1821	12	12		24	9,127	...	1		1
1822	18	10		28	6,911	...	...		...
1823	6	1		7	6,354	...	...		...
1824	11	9		20	7,912	...	...		...
1825	14	4		18	10,199	...	53		53
1826	10	16		26	10,837	...	...		...
1827	15	13		28	18,875	...	...		...
1828	50	10		60	27,382	...	...		...
1829	17	13		30	22,520	...	...		...
1830	16	3		19	23,322	...	...		...
1820-1830	189	94		283	151,824	...	54		54
1831	23	13		36	22,633	...	...		...
1832	21	313		334	60,482	...	...		...
1833	173	16		189	58,640	...	...		...
1834	24	42		66	65,365	...	...		...
1835	37	31		68	45,374	...	...		...
1836	416	57		473	76,242	...	200		200
1837	109	290		399	79,340	...	200		200
1838	52	60		112	38,914	...	100		100
1839	56	324		380	68,069	...	400		400
1840	152	55		207	84,066	...	300		300
1831-40	1,063	1,201		2,264	599,125	...	1,200		1,200
1841	31	195		226	80,289	...	400		400
1842	35	553		588	104,565	...	700		700
1843	29	1,748		1,777	52,496	...	1,600		1,600
1844	25	1,311		1,336	78,615	...	1,200		1,200
1845	54	928		982	114,371	...	1,100		1,100
1846	114	1,916		2,030	154,416	...	1,300		1,300
1847	13	1,307		1,320	234,968	...	1,600		1,600
1848	210	903		1,113	226,527	...	1,400		1,400
1849	8	3,473		3,481	297,024	...	4,000		4,000
1850	20	1,569		1,589	369,980	...	3,700		3,700
1841-50	539	13,903		14,442	1,713,251	...	17,000		17,000
1851	14	2,424		2,438	379,466	...	2,640	934	3,574
1852	3	4,103		4,106	371,601	...	4,030	3,031	7,061
1853	32	3,364		3,396	368,645	...	6,050	2,619	8,669
1854	691	3,531		4,222	427,833	...	5,950	3,980	9,930
1855	528	821		1,349	200,877	...	1,600	586	2,186
1856	173	1,157		1,330	200,436	...	3,200	959	4,159
1857	1,035	1,712		2,747	251,306	...	6,400	1,762	8,162
1858	232	2,430		2,662	123,126	...	2,500	512	3,012
1859	499	1,091		1,590	121,282	...	1,800	208	2,008
1860	542	298		840	153,640	...	1,900	266	2,166
1851-60	3,749	20,931		24,680	2,598,212	...	36,070	14,857	50,927
1861	234	616		850	91,918	...	8,900	1,087	9,987
1862	1,658	892		2,550	91,985	...	5,250	1,206	6,456
1863	1,492	1,627		3,119	176,282	...	1,100	1,485	2,585
1864	712	2,249		2,961	193,418	...	4,300	2,461	6,761
1865	1,149	6,109		7,258	248,120	...	4,000	3,180	7,180
1866	1,862	12,633		14,495	318,568	...	15,455	4,466	19,921
1867	1,436	7,055		8,491	315,722	...	12,829	5,893	18,722
1868	819	11,166		11,985	142,023	...	13,211	21,472	34,683
1861-68	9,362	42,347		51,709	1,578,036	...	65,045	41,250	106,295
1869	3,649	16,068	24,224	43,941	352,768	4,340	18,070	32,050	54,460
1870	4,083	13,216	13,443	30,742	387,203	3,264	14,834	15,430	33,528
1871	2,015	9,418	10,699	22,132	321,350	3,249	12,276	12,985	28,510
1872	3,690	11,421	13,464	28,575	404,806	5,941	13,865	11,838	31,644
1873	4,931	16,247	14,303	35,481	459,803	5,926	10,352	9,486	25,764
1874	3,082	10,384	5,712	19,178	313,339	2,261	4,601	3,380	10,242
1875	2,656	6,093	5,573	14,322	227,498	1,678	4,048	3,591	9,317
1876	1,547	5,173	5,603	12,323	169,986	1,336	4,355	3,702	9,393
1877	1,695	4,588	4,991	11,274	141,857	1,374	3,206	2,921	7,501
1878	2,105	4,759	5,390	12,354	138,469	2,300	4,863	4,242	11,405
1879	3,474	7,345	11,001	21,820	177,826	2,845	7,608	12,761	23,214
1880	6,576	19,895	39,186	65,657	457,257	5,475	20,212	36,263	61,950
1869-80	39,503	124,607	153,589	317,699	3,552,162	39,989	170,124	148,649	306,928
1881	9,177	22,705	49,760	81,582	669,431	7,823	25,976	40,620	74,419
1882	11,618	29,101	64,607	105,326	788,992	11,385	28,804	44,359	84,548
1883	10,319	23,398	38,277	71,994	603,322	8,280	22,167	25,678	56,125
1884	9,202	16,974	26,552	52,728	518,592	6,149	14,776	17,664	38,589
1885	6,100	12,356	22,248	40,704	395,346	4,211	13,901	18,222	36,334
1886	6,225	12,759	27,751	46,735	334,203	5,558	15,116	27,913	48,587
1887	8,524	16,269	42,836	67,629	490,109	8,184	20,706	46,252	75,142
1888	8,962	18,264	54,698	81,924	546,889	8,269	21,348	45,561	75,178
1889	8,699	13,390	35,415	57,504	444,427	8,271	12,597	28,529	49,397
1890	9,366	11,370	29,632	50,368	455,302	9,524	10,898	29,487	49,909
1881-90	88,132	176,586	391,776	656,494	5,246,613	77,654	186,289	324,285	588,228
1891	10,659	12,568	36,880	60,107	560,319	9,781	13,249	36,134	59,164
1892	10,593	14,462	43,247	68,302	623,084	9,763	16,814	40,990	67,567
1893	8,779	16,079	38,077	62,935	502,917	8,551	18,690	37,321	64,562
1894	5,581	8,867	18,608	33,056	314,467	4,105	5,591	9,529	19,225
1895	4,244	7,373	15,683	27,300	279,948	3,607	6,153	14,982	24,742
1896	3,167	8,855	21,177	33,229	343,267	2,876	6,584	14,874	24,334
1897	2,085	5,842	13,162	21,089	230,832	2,260	4,580	10,109	16,949
1898	1,946	4,938	12,398	19,282	229,299	2,340	4,805	8,534	15,679
1899	2,690	6,705	12,797	22,192	311,715	2,799	6,466	11,842	21,097
1900	2,926	9,575	18,650	31,151	448,572	3,570	10,931	16,209	30,710
1891-00	52,670	95,264	230,679	378,643	3,844,410	49,652	93,863	200,524	344,029
1901	3,655	12,248	23,331	39,234	487,918	4,657	12,488	20,306	37,451
1902	5,660	17,484	30,894	54,038	648,743	6,823	19,225	33,151	59,199
1903	7,158	24,461	46,028	77,647	857,046	8,214	24,998	35,439	68,651
1904	8,525	23,808	27,763	60,096	812,870	9,034	20,836	18,533	48,403
1905	8,970	25,064	26,591	60,625	1,026,499	8,051	19,638	20,520	48,209
1906	7,741	21,730	23,310	52,781	1,100,735	8,516	20,449	21,242	50,207
1907	7,243	22,133	20,589	49,965	1,285,349	7,890	20,615	19,325	47,830
1908	4,954	12,412	12,809	30,175	782,870	4,558	7,850	8,873	21,281
1909	4,395	13,627	14,474	32,496	751,786	6,782	15,237	18,331	40,350
1910	6,984	17,538	23,745	48,267	1,041,570	8,890	17,361	23,529	49,780
1901-10	65,285	190,505	249,534	505,234	8,795,386	73,415	178,697	219,249	471,361
1911	7,555	13,950	20,780	42,285	878,587	8,303	11,122	15,571	34,996
1912	6,191	8,675	12,688	27,554	838,172	8,636	7,776	13,896	30,308
1913	6,478	8,587	17,202	33,267	1,197,892
Total	278,277	696,401	1,071,835	2,047,513	30,833,643

TABLE II

FOREIGN-BORN SCANDINAVIAN POPULATION, 1850

U. S. Census of 1850

States and Territories	Denmark	Norway	Sweden	Total Scandi- navian	Total Population
Alabama	18	3	51	72	771,623
Arkansas	7	1	1	9	209,897
California	92	124	162	378	92,597
Connecticut	16	1	13	30	370,792
Delaware	1	——	2	3	91,532
District of Columbia	6	——	5	11	51,687
Florida	21	17	33	71	87,445
Georgia	24	6	11	41	906,185
Illinois	93	2,415	1,123	3,631	851,470
Indiana	10	18	16	44	988,416
Iowa	19	361	231	611	192,214
Kentucky	7	18	20	45	982,405
Louisiana	288	64	249	601	517,762
Maine	47	12	55	114	583,169
Maryland	35	10	57	102	583,034
Massachusetts	181	69	253	503	994,514
Michigan	13	110	16	139	397,654
Minnesota Territory	1	7	4	12	6,077
Mississippi	24	8	14	46	606,526
Missouri	55	155	37	247	682,044
New Hampshire	3	2	12	17	317,976
New Jersey	28	4	34	66	489,555
New Mexico Territory	2	2	1	5	61,547
New York	429	392	753	1,574	3,097,394
North Carolina	6	——	9	15	869,039
Ohio	53	18	55	126	1,980,329
Oregon Territory	2	1	2	5	13,294
Pennsylvania	97	27	133	257	2,311,786
Rhode Island	15	25	17	57	147,545
South Carolina	24	7	29	60	668,507
Tennessee	8	——	8	16	1,002,717
Texas	49	105	48	202	212,592
Utah Territory	2	32	1	35	11,380
Vermont	——	8	——	8	314,120
Virginia	15	5	16	36	1,421,661
Wisconsin	146	8,651	88	8,885	305,391
	——	———	——	———	————
Total	1,837	12,678	3,559	18,074	23,191,876

TABLE III