TABLE OF POPULATION IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS IN DIFFERENT YEARS--RELATIVE EXCESES--BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Years. Departments, States, or Cantons Males. Females. Excess Excess of States. males. females.
1829 New Mexico 21,799 21,640 159 1819 Alta California 10,979 9,107 1,872 1830 Do. do. 12,473 10,011 2,462 1832 Nuevo Leon 49,571 48,601 970 1829 San Luis Potosi.--See following table. 1832 Oajaca 237,127 247,887 10,760 1823 Michoacan 178,052 187,028 8,976
{ _Canton_ of Vera Cruz 29,851 31,695 1,844 { " of Misantla 2,451 2,658 207 1831 { " of Papantla 4,279 4,225 54 { " of Tampico 11,112 12,265 1,153 { " of Jalacingo 7,816 8,046 230 { " of Jalapa 19,837 22,867 3,030 1826 Guanajuato 165,896 179,288 13,392 1834 Chihuahua 75,303 69,879 5,424 1838 Tamaulipas 49,235 45,460 3,775 1838 Aguas calientes 33,661 36,032 2,371 1831 Jalisco.--See following table. 1838 Zacatecas. " " " 1821 Tamaulipas 34,356 33,428 928 1833 New Mexico 31,012 26,164 4,848
Births. Deaths. Excess. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. 1829 San Luis Potosi--first six months 4,882 5,159 2,029 1,885 421 1830 Jalisco--whole year 14,307 13,905 13,194 11,972 820 1837 Zacatecas--18 mo's. 10,935 11,006 6,376 6,495 48 1834[8] State of Mexico, except 2 prefectures 18,410 18,804 cholera this year. 1830 Guanajuato----whole year 14,699 14,252 7,235 7,511 276
It may, generally, be said that the excess of one sex over the other is in inverse proportion to the latitude; or, in other words, that, as we advance from the equator, the excess of females over males decreases, until the reverse occurs as the degrees of latitude augment. We must, however, except from this rule the department or state of Tamaulipas, in which the constancy with which nature sustains the excess of males, is somewhat extraordinary. The most ancient document possessed upon the subject, relative to this State, is of the year 1793, and from this we discover that, from that year until 1807, 124 more males than females were born therein, and that 30 more females than men died during the period--
More _females_ than males are born in the following States, in the order in which they are placed:
1. Vera Cruz--greatest number. 2. Oajaca. 3. Puebla. 4. Michoacan. 5. Guanajuato. 6. Jalisco.