During the years 1820-1830 not more than 283 emigrated from the Scandinavian countries to the United States. In the following decade the number only slightly exceeded two thousand. Since 1850 our statistics regarding the foreign born population are more complete. In that year we find there were a little over eighteen thousand persons in the country of Scandinavian birth. In 1880 this number had reached 440,262; while the unprecedented exodus of 1882 and the following years had by 1890 brought the number up to 933,249. Thus the immigrant population from these countries, which in 1850 was less than one per cent, had in 1890 reached ten per cent of the whole foreign element. The following table will show the proportion contributed by the countries designated for each decade since 1850: TABLE I _1850_ _1860_ _1870_ _1880_ _1890_ _1900_ -------------PER CENT------------- Ireland 42.8 38.9 33.3 27.8 20.2 15.6 Germany 26 30.8 30.4 29.4 30.1 25.8 England 12.4 10.5 10 9.9 9.8 8.1 Canada 6.6 6 8.9 10.7 10.6 11.4 Scotland and Wales 4.4 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.2 Scandinavia .9 1.7 4.3 6.6 10.1 10.3 Thus it will be seen that among European countries Scandinavia, considered as one, stands third in the number of persons contributed to the American foreign-born population, exceeding that of Scotland and Wales in 1870 and that of England in 1890. Both the Irish and the German immigration reached considerable numbers at least fifteen years before that from the North, Ireland having contributed nearly forty-three per cent of the total in 1850, and Germany twenty-six. By 1900 the Irish quota had fallen to fifteen per cent, while the German is nearly twenty-six and that from Scandinavia ten per cent. In 1870 our Scandinavian-born immigrant population was twice as large as the French and equalled the total from Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Russia.[14] [14] The four last named countries have, as we know, in the last decade entered very extensively into the emigration movement.