NOTES ON TABLES I-XI ARGENTINA. M. Leib Jaffa, a prominent member of the Jewish community, estimates the Jewish population to have been between 140,000 and 150,000 in 1923. AUSTRALIA. The figure for the Jewish population is exclusive of the possible number of Jews among the 86,698 enumerated in 1921 as “object to state", 'no religion", and "indefinite". Complete figures for the Jewish population, census of 1921, are not yet available. New South Wales, census of 1921, 10,150 (census of 1911, 7,660); Victoria, census of 1921, 7,677 (census of 1911, 6,270); Queensland, 672; South Australia, 765; and West Australia, 1,790, all of census of 1911. No figures for Jews are available for Tasmania, the Territories, the Islands, and the mandated countries. CANADA. The figure for the Jewish population is on the basis of nationality. Mr. B. G. Sack, a journalist and active community worker, estimates the Jewish population to have been 140,000 in 1921. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA. The figure for the Jewish population is on the basis of religion, and it is exclusive of the possible number of Jews among the 724,503 persons who returned as non-confessionals. GREECE. The figure for the total population includes the 5,536,375 enumerated in 1920 plus the 786,431 refugees enumerated in 1922. GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND. Total population of Great Britain, 42, 586, 217, census of 1921; total population of Northern Ireland, 1,581,696, census of 1911. IRISH FREE STATE. The figure for the Jewish population includes that of Northern Ireland. LITHUANIA. The figures given are exclusive of the population of the District of Memel estimated at 150,000, and are provisional. P. T. Agency stated that the enumerators minimized the numbers of the minorities in Lithuania. MOROCCO. In 1919, French authorities estimated that the total urban population of French Morocco was 484,772 and the Jewish urban population 76,505. There is no Government estimate of the number of Jews living in the villages and wadis. NETHERLANDS. The figure for the Jewish population is on the basis of a religious census and is exclusive of the possible number of Jews among the 533,714 non-confessionals. PALESTINE. Dr. Arthur Ruppin, author of "The Jews of Today", and member of the Palestine Zionist Executive, estimates, on the basis of natural increase and immigration, that on December 31, 1924, the Jews in Palestine numbered 105,871, not allowing for Jews who came in across the land borders and did not register. This category and those who entered as tourists but decided to settle, Dr. Ruppin believes, bring the number up to about 110,000 or 13.55% of the total population. (See The New Judaea, Apr. 24, 1925). ROUMANIA. The figures for the Jewish population is an estimate. The census or estimate of 1918 gives 9,696,714, as belonging to the Orthodox Church; 1,456,147, Greek Orthodox; 1,482,391, Roman Catholics; 1,344,970, Protestants; 44,087, Mohammedans; 17,596, Armenians; 834,344, Jews; total, 14,876,789, leaving 2,516,360 unaccounted for. TRIPOLI. The figure for the Jewish population is an estimate, probably for only those who live in the coast cities. The Statesman's Year Book for 1922 states that the population of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica is supposed to consist of 40% negroes, 30% Arabs, 10% Europeans, and 20% Jews. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. The figure for the total population includes 1,519,488 whites. The Jewish population forms 4.1% of the total white population. WHITE RUSSIA. The figures given are for White Russia as it is now constituted, viz., the former Governments of Minsk and Ghomel. A census of the former Government of Minsk was taken in 1917 and of the former Government of Ghomel, in 1920. B. JEWISH POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES The Government of the United States, in making its various censuses, takes no account of religious affiliations. There are, therefore, no official, authoritative statistics of the Jewish population of the United States. All figures concerning the number of Jews in this country are based entirely upon estimates. For the estimate of 1907, 1910, 1914, and 1918, see AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK 5668, pp. 431-435, and 5679, pp. 339–352, and for the latest estimate, that of 3,600,800, for Continental United States, see the author's article, "Statistics of Jews," in the AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR Book, 5684, p. 337. |