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The total fertility rate of the United States jumped from 2.49 in 1945 to 2.94 in 1946, a rise of 0.45 children therefore beginning the baby boom. It continued to rise throughout the 1940s to reach 3.10 in 1950 with a peak of 3.77 in 1957.
The United States' population has grown by less than one million people for the first time since 1937, ... 1945 132,137,000 2,858,000 1,401,719 1,456,281 20.4 11 11 -14.7
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]
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).
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. [a] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of ...
Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth ... 60% of the American population had attained a "middle-class" standard of ...
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). [1] The US Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964 (shown in red). [2]The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries of the world, especially in the Western world.