The national census of 1869 gave the population of the country as
1,830,214, whereof the city of Buenos Aires had 187,346
inhabitants. According to the census of 1895, the total population
amounted to 3,954,911, with that of the capital at 663,854. A new
census, taken May, 1913, is now being compiled, but from figures
supplied we know the population of the city was at that time
1,560,000 inhabitants. According to the Division of Statistical and
Rural Economy, the entire population of the Republic in 1911 was
estimated to be 7,467,878. The latter figures are necessarily based
upon incomplete returns and have probably been estimated upon a
ratio of increase established by earlier calculations; but all
indications point to the probability that on the completion of the
new census, during the present year, the total population of the
Republic will approach 10,000,000.