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Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [127] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [128] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [129] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [130]
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]
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.
According to 2022 Social Security Administration data, while highly populous states like Califonia, New York, and Florida have the most centenarians, Hawai'i had the highest percentage of over ...
By 2100, the population is expected to have grown by about 9.7% above 2022 levels. But changes to immigration levels between now and 2100 may swing U.S. population numbers by up to 209 million people.
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.
Story at a glance The latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimates show Americans are flocking to suburban areas and small- and mid-sized metropolitans in the South and West. ... 800-290-4726 ...
The 1950 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 151,325,798, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 census. [1] This was the first census in which: More than one state recorded a population of over 10 million