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Jewish world population in the 1880s
(from: History; In: Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971, vol. 8)
<The rate of growth of the Jewish population was almost everywhere twice that of the general population, even in backward countries. This was at a time of a great growth of *population everywhere. The Jewish population naturally benefited from its concentration in Europe, where the gains of medicine and preventive hygiene first made their mark, as well as from their concentration in towns, where again these cultural advances first had their effects.
However the specifically high Jewish rate of growth was mainly due to two factors: to a much lower infant mortality and to the good care taken of the ill and aged. Here old cultural-religious traditions gave an advantage to the Jewish population. As a result of the developments in population growth and migration the distribution of Jews in the world at the beginning of the 1880s was approximately
-- 4 million in czarist Russia [[with the whole Pale of Settlement inclusive Baltic States, Belorussia and Ukraine]]
-- 1.5 million in Austria-Hungary
-- 550,000 in united Germany
-- approximately 300,000 in the Ottoman Empire,
-- and approximately 200,000 in the United States.> (col. 721)
Source
Encyclopaedia Judaica: History, vol. 8, col. 721 with the indication about
world wide Jewish population figures in the 1880s
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