The population of Mexico is now estimated to be about 15.000.000 people. Tile Commerce Yearbook for 1929 gives the following figures: Year: Population of Mexico 1895 ------------------------------------------- 12.491. 573 1900 ------------------------------------------- 13. 607. 259 1910 --------------------------------------- 15.160. 369 1021 ---------------------------------------14. 234. 799 1928 ---------------------------------------15. 048. 448 It will be noted that the population of Mexico actually decreased during the decade from 1910 to 1921. and that the estimated increase during the succeeding years was very small. It is apparent. therefore. that the large postwar emigration from Mexico was not due to overpopulation. but to the economic situation on both sides of the border. Improved economic conditions in Mexico will no doubt diminish the pressure of emigration from that country. and may even cause the tide to set in the opposite direction. It is understood that an effort is being made by certain elements in Mexico to encourage citizens of that country who have inmigrated into the United States to return to cultivate the land in certain reclamation projects sponsored by the Mexican Government. Mexico is no inexhaustible source of emigrants. The treatment that we should extend to that country Is vastly different from the attitude that America is compelled to assume with respect toward China or India. or even toward Japan. The Statesmans YearBook. published in London in 1928. gives the population of India. according to the census of 1921. as 247.003.293.
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