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Years.		No. of Inhabitants.
1824—	Hon. J. R. Poinsett,	6,500,000
1825—	Humboldt, about,	7,000,000
1838—	Report of Commissioner of Chamber of Deputies,	7,009,120
1834—	Galvan's Mexican Calendar,	7,734,292
1836—	Notices of the states and territories of the Mexican nation,	7,843,132
1830—	Mr. Burkhardt- a German author,	7,996,000
1842—	An estimate made as the basis for the election of a Congress, (exclusive of Texas,)	7,015,509

In the year 1838, Señor Jose Gomez de la Cortina,—ex-Conde de la Cortina, one of the most enlightened citizens of Mexico, published a carefully prepared essay upon the population of Mexico, in the 1st No. of the Bulletin of the National Institute of Geography and Statistics of the Mexican Republic; and his opinion was that the number of inhabitants greatly exceeded any of the above amounts. By observing the increase of population in different periods of five years, he considered it satisfactorily proved by the Tablas Geographico-politicas, of 1803, that the augmentation, in favorable years, was at the rate 1-4/5 per cent. By applying this ratio to the census of the Tablas, which gave in 1803, 5,764,731 inhabitants, we shall have an increase of about 105,000 yearly; and if we calculate at this rate of augmentation for the 46 intervening years, we find in 1850 an increase of 4,830,000, or a grand total of 10,594,731.

In the year 1842, however, when an estimate was made of a basis of population, upon which to found a call for a Congress to form a new constitution under the plan of Tacubaya, in 23 Departments or States and Territories, exclusive of Texas, the government calculated that there were 7,015,509 inhabitants.

Table or Population in 1842.

Departments.		Population
	Mexico,	1,389,502
	Jalisco,	679,311
	Puebla,	661,902
	Yucatan,	508,948
	Guanajuato,	512,606
	Oajaca,	500,278
	Michoacan,	497,906
	San Luis Potosi,	321,840
	Zacatecas,	273,575
	Vera Cruz,	254,380