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The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution and applicable laws. In the first census, the population of the United States was enumerated to be 3,929,214 inhabitants. [1] [2]
U.S. population (1790-2010). This SVG chart is a replacement for Image:Population of the United States, 1790-2000.png. I created it by hand in Notepad. The reference points were obtained from official United States Census data. 1790 to 2010 data was found here. Date: 20 January 2008: Source: Self-made, using public domain U.S. Census data as a ...
The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans. According to the Census Bureau, these figures likely undercount enslaved people. [2] Shaded blocks indicate periods before the colony was established or chartered, as well as times when it was part of another colony.
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). [26] The United States Census Bureau defines the demographic birth boom as between 1946 and 1964 [27] (red). In the years after WWII, the United States, as well as a number of other industrialized countries, experienced an unexpected sudden birth rate jump.
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.
Demographers are getting a glimpse of one piece of the puzzle already, however: which U.S. counties had the biggest population growth over the last 10 years, based on recently released Census ...
The United States population grew by 3.3 ... The nearly 1% increase marked the sharpest annual growth in population since 2001, the bureau said, bringing the nation's total population to 340 ...
When the United States declared independence in 1776, Philadelphia was its most populous city. By the time the first U.S. census count was completed in 1790, New York City had already grown to be 14% more populous than Philadelphia (though Philadelphia still had the larger metropolitan population in 1790).