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DEMOGRAPHICS

TABLES

TABLE 1

TOTAL POPULATION: 1778 TO 1850

Population Date Series A a/ Series B a/ 1778 300,000 300,000 1796 280,000 270,000 1803 ... 266,000 1804 280,000 154,000 1805 152,000 ... 1819 145,000 144,000

Date Population 1823 134,925 1831-1832 124,449 1835-1836 107,954 Jan. 1849 87,063 Jan. 1850 84,165

a/ Adam's alternate estimates, here arbitrarily designated A and B.

Source: Robert C. Schmitt, Demographic Statistics of Hawaii: 1778-1965 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1968), p. 41.

TABLE 2

POPULATION OF HAWAII: 1850 to 1896

Census Date	Population	Annual change
		Amount	Percent a/
Jan. 1850	84,165	...	...
Dec. 26, 1853	81,138	-2,771	-3.5
Dec. 24, 1860	69,800	-478	-0.7
Dec. 7, 1866	62,959	-1,150	-1.7
Dec. 27, 1872	56,897	-1,002	-1.7
Dec. 27, 1878	57,985	181	0.3
Dec. 27, 1884	80,578	3,766	5.5
Dec. 28, 1890	89,990	1,569	1.8
Dec. 27, 1896	109,020	3,310	3.3

a/ Computed by the formula for continuous compounding.

Source: Schmitt, p. 69.

TABLE 3

HAWAIIAN POPULATION BY RACE: 1853-1896 (in percent)

                                                          Non-Hawaiian ("foreign")
                All       Hawaiian       Part-Hawaiian            Born in   Born
Census Year     Races     ("native")     ("half-caste")    Total  Hawaii  elsewhere
    1853        100.0       95.8            1.3             2.9    0.4       2.5
    1860 a/     100.0               96.1                    3.9    ---       ---
    1866        100.0       90.7            2.6             6.7    ---       ---
    1872        100.0       86.2            4.4             8.4    1.5       7.9
    1878        100.0       76.0            5.9            18.1    1.6      16.4
    1884        100.0       49.7            5.2            45.1    2.5      42.6
    1890        100.0       38.3            6.9            54.9    8.3      46.5
    1896        100.0       28.5            7.8            63.8   12.6      51.2
                                                                                   

a/ Chinese living in Honolulu are included with the native population.

Source: Schmitt, p. 74.

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