the province of Oulu coming second. Between the years 18931902, the emigrants came from the various provinces, as follows

Vaasa    51,247   Viipuri    2,886

Oulu    13,801   Kuopio    1,513

Turku-Pori    7,866   Häme    1,394

Uusimaa    3,473   Mikkeli    721 (70)

Between the years 1903-1912, the various provinces contributed the following numbers of emigrants:

Vaasa    63,028   Uusimaa    7,964

Turku-Pori    25,812   Kuopio    6,361

Oulu    20,505   Häme    5,750

Viipuri    10,758   Mikkeli    3,307 (71)

In comparing this decade with the previous one, it can be seen that the Oulu and Turku-Pori provinces switched places, as did also Uusimaa and Viipuri. Neverthless, northern Finland was the area from which most of the emigration occurred, accounting for 67 percent of the total. One newspaper (Amerikan Uutiset, 24 February 1905) stated the case graphically: "In one particular part of Finland, namely in the western portions of the Oulu and Vaasa provinces, from the coast southeasterly to Saarijärvi (lake), emigration has become a frenzy. About four-fifths of Finland's emigrants stem from this relatively limited area." This delineation of area also seems to answer the question of whether the emigrants came from urban or rural Finland, and in substantiation the Finnish Statistical Yearbook for 1961 furnishes the following percentages:

These statistics, with their drop in rural origin and rise in urban origin over a period of almost 60 years, reflect somewhat the change in rural-urban population statistics, for in 1900 some 12.5 percent of Finland's inhabitants lived in cities and 87.5 percent in rural areas, but in 1950 the urban population had climbed to 32.3 percent, with a drop in the rural population to 67.7 percent.

70. Päivälehti, May 18, 1914.

71. Päivälehti, May 18, 1914. 72. W. Jokinen, op. cit. p. 43.

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