The Decreasing Population of the Sandwich Islands.²

From the Honolulu Gazette. March 12.³

The census of 1866 gave a total of 62,959 inhabitants of the kingdom, divided as to sex as follows: Males 34,395; females, 28,564. The census of 1872 gives a total population of 56,897, composed of 31,650 males and 25,247 females. The decrease in totals is 6,062 souls, a little over 11 per cent in six years. Of the natives of the kingdom, including half-castes, the total in 1872 was 51,531; the total in 1866 was 58,765, making a decrease of 7,234 in six years. Of this class we find that the full-blood native has decreased 8,081, while the half-caste has increased in numbers 847. Of foreigners in 1866 were numbered 4,194; in 1872 we find 5,366, showing a gain of 1,172. These numbers include Chinese. The percentage as to the whole population of those under fifteen years of age has slightly increased the past six years, a most encouraging fact.

Of full-blood natives the males are largely in excess, while in the case of half foreign blood of Hawaiian birth, the females are slightly in excess of males.

A reference to the census statistics since 1832 gives the percentage of decrease of populations as follows:

The native race numbered, in 1832 about 130.000; in 1872, forty years later, the full-blood natives are numbered at 49,044.