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Appendix III

POPULATION CHANGE - ST. MAARTEN

Year	White	Black	Total	% Increase
1658			300
1705			251
1715	361	244	605
1740	533	1239	1772
1751			2569
1789			3571
1816			3559
1850			2890
1862	1441	1883	3324
1870	600	3000	3600
1880			2839
1885			3926
1900			3485
1902	1314	1948	3262

	Men	Women
1908		1863	3072
1913			3550
1915			3282
1920			2633
1928			2197
1930	984	1351	2335
1935	1090	1584	2674
1940	736	1268	2004
1945	673	1071	1744

Year	Men	Women	Total	Increase
1950 (census)	591	893	1484
1951	582	876	1458	-1.7
1952	604	921	1525	4.6
1953	624	947	1571	3.0
1954	637	960	1597	1.7
1955	631	967	1607	.06
1956	606	954	1560	-2.9
1957	618	936	1554	-.03
1958	630	907	1537	-.11
1959	636	901	1537	-
1960	1274	1457	2731	78.
1961	1397	1531	2928	7.2
1962	1559	1691	3250	11.
1963	1769	1874	3643	12.
1964	1879	1993	3872	6.
1965	2098	2141	4239	9.4
1966	2333	2357	4690	11.
1967	2518	2562	5080	8.3
1968	2770	2800	5570	9.6
1969	3056	3084	6104	9.6
1970	3509	3395	6904	13.
1971	4007	4807	7814	13.
1973	5138	4691	9829	9.
1974	5351	4959	10310	4.9
1975	5332	5126	10458	1.4
1976 (est.)	5658	5523	11191	7.


View of Philipsburg with saltheaps visible along the shores of the Great Salt Lake	Partial view of Great Bay Harbour with schooners waiting to load salt for Nova Scotia

Scenic view of Philipsburg	The Great Salt Pond

Sources for 1658-1930: Hartog 1964, pp 228, 419, 422, 704, except 1850 which is from Knight 1978; for 1930-1949, Tjon Sie Fat 1954; for 1950-1976, St. Maarten Census Bureau files. Note that for 1789 Keur and Keur give 2000 whites and 4200 slaves (Keur and Keur 1960:44). Note also that the male-female ratio reverses in 1970.

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