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Q 5 Q E R B S _Nr._3q3_(41[48)± Jun1_1941. VOLKSZAEHLING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. KDI AICH from the American Census Bureau reported end-belt data on did on April 1,940 censuses conducted in the States of America obtained 131,669.275 inhabitants for the USA., which means an increase of 7.2% against the previous census in lgzo. Between 1920 and 1930, the population of the USA grew by 16.1 % and by 1910 never less than 20 %. The growth rate is due to the falling birth rate and the faktisohe cessation of immigration. Last year it happened for the first time that the number of emigrants from the United States was greater than that of immigrants. Another novel fact in the U.S. population movement is the appearance of a contiguous area of population decline, the so-called Dust Bowl, from North Dakota to Oklahoma. A large part of the agricultural population of this area was forced to migrate as a result of the dust storms and the dehydration of the soil. 92 cities with more than 10.000 inhabitants (compared to 93 in the Dahre l930), which are listed below in the order of population size (population in thousands). In the order in which the largest cities were located, there was no change compared to 193o, except for the overhaul of the city by Baltimore. In eleventh place follows the federal capital Washington (IG30 in fourteenth place), the only major city whose population grew between 1930 and 1940 soneller than in the previous decade. The capital of California's Sacramento and Charlotte in North Carolina, figu- ing for the first time among the major cities, while the population of B2 Paso (Texas), Lynn (Massachusetts) and Evansville (Indiana), which exceeded one hundred thousand in 1930, now fell below 'this figure. Declaration of convenience: Blackë: Frühß= State with a population decrease between 1930 and l940; major cities: l= with over 1 million inhabitants; 2= with 500,000 - 1 Mi11ion inhabitantsy 3=,with 200,000 - 500,000 inhabitants; 4= with 100,000 - 200,000 inhabitants. Left Below: the major cities in the area between New York and Boston. Note: In the city table, the name of each city (in Klam mern) is followed by the name in which the city in question is located. (GEOPRESS.)