Military Eqvipmen1.—See rgcntma, under ARMIES.
li'eights, Measures, chid .11oney.—The metric system was officially adopted in ISS7. Gold is the standard of value. A gold peso ($) equals 96.5 cents in t'nited States money. A peso has 100 eentayos. The paper peso is equal to 44 centavos gold money.
POPt•IATIOS. The following table shows the population of Argentina by Provinces for 1809 and 1595.
Tins there was an increase of 2.2211,424, or 120 per cent. in 26 years. The urban population constituted 34.6 per cent, of the total population of the country in 1869, and per cent.. in 1805, thus keeping pace with the industrial develop ment of the country. Only in three European countries, viz., England. Germany, and Italy, is the percentage of the urban population greater than in Argentina. In the United States, the urban population constituted 32.9 per cent, of the total in 1590, and 37.3 per cent, in 1900. Of the 3,954,911 persona reported by the census, 2,OSS,919 were males, and 1,865,992 females, the great excess of males being a common phenom enon in young countries attracting large num bers of infnigrants. 'l'here were 2,950,384 na
tives, as against 1,004,527 foreigners, or in other words, more titan one-third of the population con sisted of inunigrants, among whom the propor tion of males to females was about 7 to 4. The best represented uatioualities among the foreign populatirni were: Italians, 492,036; Spaniards, 19S,(;85; Frenchmen, 94,098: and South Auueri eans (Brazilians, ('hile:rn.s, etc.), 117,000. Next in order were Englishmen. Germans, Swiss, and Austrians, ranging from 21.755, to 12,303. The Indians seem to be fast dying out, their number haring dW until ed from more than 93,000 in IS09, to 30,000 in 1895. The density of population increased from 1.6 per square mile in 1869, to 3.7 per square mile in 1595, ranging in the latter year from 0.16 per square mile in the western territory of Neuquen. to 11.1 in the Province of Buenos Ayres.
Estimates made of the population in December, 1900, place the total for that date at 4,794,149, or an increase since 1895 of 21 per cent. This increase was shared by all of the provinces. Of the territories, Pampa alone made large gains.