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The United States population almost quadrupled during the 20th century—at a growth rate of about 1.3% a year—from about 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000. [25] It is estimated to have reached the 200 million mark in 1967, and the 300 million mark on October 17, 2006.
These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ... 6,416.60 5,448.00 21
A large percentage of the immigrants that came to New York City after 1965 were from non-European countries. [5] Large numbers of Irish people arrived in New York City during the Great Famine in the 1840s, while Germans, Italians, Jews, and other European ethnic groups arrived in NYC mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 5 ]
The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 US dollars a day in 2017 international PPP prices. The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API.
At the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368, China's population was reported to be close to 60 million; toward the end of the dynasty in 1644, it may have approached 150 million. [25] England's population reached an estimated 5.6 million in 1650, up from an estimated 2.6 million in 1500. [26]
The white percentage of the population has sharply declined. The first census in South Africa in 1911 showed that whites made up 22% of the population. This declined to 16% in 1980, [31] 8.9% in 2011 and 7.65% in 2022. [32]: 21 Coloured South Africans replaced Whites as the largest minority group around 2010.
About 64.8 percent of the population live in the 20 main urban areas (population of 30,000 or more) and 43.8 percent live in the four largest cities of Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Hamilton. [35] Approximately 14 percent of the population live in four different categories of rural areas as defined by Statistics New Zealand. About 18 ...
While the population of minorities (defined as anyone who is not fully non-Hispanic white) in the US accounts for 139.8 million of 331.5 million US residents in 2020, 18.5% of the national total live in California (2020).