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Jan 18, 2024 · The U.S. Black population is young. The median age of Black people in 2022 was 32.1 years, nearly six years younger than the U.S. population’s median age of 38.0. Roughly 30% of the entire Black population was below the age of 20 while 12% were 65 or older. Just under half of the U.S. Black population (45%) was younger than 30 in 2022.
In 1992, Denevan suggested that the total population was approximately 53.9 million and the populations by region were, approximately, 3.8 million for the United States and Canada, 17.2 million for Mexico, 5.6 million for Central America, 3 million for the Caribbean, 15.7 million for the Andes and 8.6 million for lowland South America.
Jun 27, 2019 · WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. adults estimate that nearly one in four Americans (23.6%) are gay or lesbian. Gallup has previously found that Americans have greatly overestimated the U.S. gay population, recording similar average estimates of 24.6% in 2011 and 23.2% in 2015. In each of the three polls in which Gallup has asked this question, a ...
Aug 13, 2021 · Population in metro areas grew by 8.7% since 2010. The US population grew from roughly 308.7 million in 2010 to 331.4 million, a 7.35% increase. That’s the slowest population growth since 1930 ...
Jan 3, 2019 · There are 128,961 public and private K-12 schools in the U.S., according to 2019-20 data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Here’s how they break down: All: 128,961 ...
Americans throw away about 25% of the food they purchase for at-home consumption. A whopping 40% of all food grown and produced in the U.S. is never eaten. About 20% of U.S. farm products by value are exported each year. Women make up 36% of the total number of U.S. farm operators; 58% of all farms have at least one female decision-maker.
In 2009, the United States had the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000. [16] [17] However, following over a decade of decarceration, the prison population had declined from a 2008 peak of 2,307,504 to 1,675,400 (500 per 100,000). [1] This has resulted in a decline to the 6th highest incarceration rate of 505 ...
