Abstract
population moved up from 47 in 1899 to 57 i 1953, after an initial decline following the revolutionary period. According to a nearly comparable definition, the population of the United States increased from 44 per cent in 1900 to 64 per cent in 1950. Not until 1899 was the first attempt made to indicate populations of towns and cities separately from municipios, or counties. The criterion of urban followed in the first three modern censuses (1899, 1907, 1919) was that all localities of 1000 inhabitants or more should be considered urban. For the 1931 and 1943 censuses the definition was expanded to take in agglomerations of fewer than iooo inhabitants, including those who lived on named streets. The census of 1953 regarded as urban all agglomerations of 150 inhabitants or more with such qualitative conditions as electricity and
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