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The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [ 1 ] in 33 states and 10 organized territories.
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
Graph of world population over the past 12,000 years . As a general rule, the confidence of estimates on historical world population decreases for the more distant past. Robust population data exist only for the last two or three centuries. Until the late 18th century, few governments had ever performed an accurate census.
Population change 1960 to 2000 by state. Rural flight is the departure of excess populations (usually young men and women) from farm areas. In some cases whole families left, as in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Much of rural America has seen steady population decline since 1920.
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
The population is projected to pass 70 million people by 2027, and 75 million by 2042, according to ONS estimates. The projections show that we are currently in the midst of the greatest rate of ...
1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech [70] 20b NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Ojibwe in Canada 18,000 1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech [70] 21a Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Assiniboine in the US 17,500 1823 15+ (ca. half in the US, ca. 1,500 lodges) W. H. Keating and G. C. Beltrami: 21b Great Plains
The 1860s were a period of growing protectionism in the United States, while the European free trade phase lasted from 1860 to 1892. The tariff average rate on imports of manufactured goods in 1875 was from 40% to 50% in the United States, against 9% to 12% in continental Europe at the height of free trade.