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Demographics of the United States concern matters of population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects regarding the population. American population 1790–1860.
Feb 2, 2024 · Twentieth and twenty-first century. The U.S. population has grown steadily throughout the past 120 years, reaching one hundred million in the 1910s, two hundred million in the 1960s, and three...
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The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000.
In 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.
- 86.16/sq mi (33.27/km²)
- 0.4% (2022)
- 1.665 children born/woman (2022)
- 340,458,130 (est. 2023)
- U.S. Fertility Rate
- Aging Population
- Immigration = Population Rise
- U.S. Census Figures
- Sources
The United States runs below replacement level (2.1 births per woman) in fertility rate, with an estimated 1.85 as of 2019. Some of the drop in fertility rate was due to a decrease in teen births between 2010 and 2019 and a drop in unintended pregnancies. The lower birthrate actually signifies that, in the United States, women have increasingly mor...
A lower birthrateand an increasing life expectancy contribute to the fact that the overall U.S. population is aging. One problem associated with an increasingly aging population includes fewer people in the workforce. Countries that have an older population and are not having a net immigration will see population declines. This has the potential to...
Fortunately, the United States attracts a large number of immigrants who come here to work. Also, people who come here searching for a better life do so at an age when they typically have young children, thus keeping the country's population growing. Immigrants fill in the gaps in the workforce created by the aging population and the drop in fertil...
Here you will find a list of the U.S. population every 10 years from the first official census in 1790 to the most recent in 2010, including a recent population estimate. The population is expected to hit 355 million by 2030, 373 million by 2040, and 388 million by 2050. The numbers from before 1790 are only estimates and come from "Colonial and Pr...
- Matt Rosenberg
Board of Education ruling, the 1950 Census reported that the population of the United States was 150,697,000, including 135,215,000 people reporting they were White, 14,894,000 Black and 588,000 Other races. Among the 22,459,000 people ages 5 to 13, 18,282,000 were enrolled in school. Of the 8,518,000 ages 14 to 17, 7,189,000 attended school
A brief history of each decennial census from 1790 to 2010.
