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Here is a breakdown of each generation and their widely accepted year ranges, according to the Pew Research Center. The Silent Generation: Born between 1928 and 1945 (ages 79 to 96)
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [39] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [40] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [41] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [42]
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
Most Asian Americans [5] historically lived in the Western United States. [11] [12] The Hispanic and Asian population of the United States has rapidly increased in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and the African American percentage of the U.S. population is slowly increasing as well since reaching a low point of less than ten percent in 1930. [5]
The United States Library of Congress and Statistics Canada have cited Pew's definition of 1997–2012 for Generation Z. [51] [52] In a 2022 report, the U.S. Census designates Generation Z as those born from 1997 to 2013. [54] Generation Zers experienced the onset and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as children or young adults. [57]
The US population is projected to peak in 2080, then start declining, according to a new analysis by the US Census Bureau. Projections released Thursday predict the country’s population will ...
According to 2022 Social Security Administration data, while highly populous states like Califonia, New York, and Florida have the most centenarians, Hawai'i had the highest percentage of over ...
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.