=========================================== Year.|Number.|Decennial| Percentage of | |Increase.|Decennial Increase. -----|-------|---------|------------------- 1880 | 86| ..... | ....... 1890 | 1,147| 1,061 | 1,234 % 1900 | 10,151| 9,004 | 785 % 1910 | 41,356| 31,205 | 307.3% 1920 | 70,196| 28,840 | 69.7% =========================================== We see from the above table that after half a century of Japanese immigration to the United States, California's net gain amounts to a little over 70,000, the number having increased at an average rate of 14,025 per decade, or 1603 per annum. We also observe that the percentage of decennial increase gradually decreased from 1234 per cent. to 69.7 per cent. It is useful to compare this development of the Japanese population with that of California in general, because it gives an idea of the relative importance of the Japanese increase. This is shown in the following table, in which the decennial rates of increase between them are compared: COMPARISON OF POPULATION INCREASE OF CALIFORNIA AND OF JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA. ================================================================== Year.| Number. | Decennial | Rate of | Rate of | Percentage of | | Increase. |Decennial|Japanese | Japanese to the | | |Increase.|Decennial|Total Population | | | |Increase.| of California. -----|-----------|-----------|---------|---------|---------------- 1880 | 864,694 | ......... | .... | .... | .0099% 1890 | 1,213,398 | 348,704 | 40.3% | 1234 % | .095 % 1900 | 1,485,053 | 271,655 | 22.3% | 785 % | .68 % 1910 | 2,377,549 | 892,496 | 60.0% | 307.3% | 1.73 % 1920 | 3,426,861 | 1,049,312 | 44.1% | 69.7% | 2.04 % ================================================================== Thus we see that while the percentage of decennial increase of Japanese has been fast decreasing since the census of 1890, descending from 1234 per cent. to 785 per cent. in the next census, and to 307.3 per cent. in 1910, and 69.7 per cent. in 1920, that of California is headed, on the whole, towards an increase. We also notice that the percentage of the Japanese population to the total population of California also shows a tendency to slow growth, increasing only three tenths of one per cent. during the last decade. As a general conclusion, therefore, we may say that the rate of increase of Japanese in California is slowly declining while that of the total population of California is steadily increasing.