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It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [1] in 33 states and 10 organized territories. This was an increase of 35.6 percent [1] over the 23,191,876 [2] persons enumerated during the 1850 census. The total population included 3,953,760 [3] slaves.
Historical demography is the quantitative study of human population in the past. It is concerned with population size, with the three basic components of population change (fertility, mortality, and migration), and with population characteristics related to those components, such as marriage, socioeconomic status, and the configuration of families.
Interactive semi-log plot of historical population of the 50 states of USA and the District of Columbia from 1900 to 2015 according to Federal Reserve Economic Data categorised by US census region. In theSVGfile , hover over a graph, its state abbreviation, its map or its region label to highlight it (and in SMIL-enabled browsers, click to ...
A population history of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2012) excerpt [permanent dead link ] Lahey, Joanna N. "Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the Nineteenth-Century Demographic Transition," Journal of Economic History, 74 (June 2014), 482–508. Mintz Steven and Susan Kellogg.
Demographic economics or population economics is the application of economic analysis to demography, the study of human populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
This template is used as an information box on pages, showing each census year with a population, and a percent gain/loss comparison. Also includes functionality for a custom title/footer for the infobox, easy-to-insert citations for each census year, and population estimates for a single non-census year (with an easy-to-insert citation thing for this as well). Template parameters [Edit ...
According to the 1860 U.S. census, fewer than 385,000 individuals (i.e. 1.4% of whites in the country, or 4.8% of southern whites) owned one or more slaves. [17] 95% of blacks lived in the South, comprising one-third of the population there as opposed to 1% of the population of the North. [18]
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.