Number of Irish Emigrants, 1895-1905

From "The Outlook in Ireland: The Case for Devolution and Conciliation" by the Earl of Dunraven, 1907

Table showing for each of the years 1895-1905 the number of Emigrants enumerated, with the rates per 1,000 of the estimated Population of Marriages, Births Deaths, and Emigrants; and the averages for the ten years 1895-1904

Years.	Number of Emigrants as returned by the Enumerators.	Rate per 1,000 of Estimated Population.
Years.	Number of Emigrants as returned by the Enumerators.	Marriages.	Births.	Deaths.	Emigrants.
1895	48,703	5.07	23.3	18.5	10.7
1896	38,995	5.08	23.7	16.7	8.6
1897	32,535	5.05	23.5	18.5	7.2
1898	32,241	5.00	23.3	18.2	7.1
1899	41,232	4.96	23.1	17.7	9.2
1900	45,288	4.77	22.7	19.6	10.01
1901	39,613	5.08	22.7	17.8	8.9
1902	40,190	5.18	23.0	17.5	9.1
1903	39,789	5.21	23.1	17.5	9.0
1904	36,902	5.22	23.6	18.1	8.4
Yearly average, 1895-1904	39,549	5.06	23.2	18.0	8.8
1905	30,676	5.26	23.4	17.1	7.0

Other articles on Irish Emigration:--

On the Emigration of Protestants (1830s)
Australian Emigration Society
Emigration
1861 Census: Decline in the Population of Ireland (Famine, Disease and Emigration)
The Secret of Emigration
Decrease of Population
The Irish Exodus to Canada: Grosse Isle, 1847-8
Bishop Lynch's Letter on Emigration from Ireland to South Carolina

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