Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The U.S. population grew only 0.1% from the previous year before. [92] The United States' population has grown by less than one million people for the first time since 1937, with the lowest numeric growth since at least 1900, when the Census Bureau began yearly population estimates. [92]
This is a list of colonial and pre-Federal U.S. historical population, as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau based upon historical records and scholarship. [1] The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans.
Demographic and historical evolution of the United States population since the first official census carried out in 1790. N. Year Population United States Population and Housing Census 18th century: 1st: 1790: 3,929,214 1790 United States census: 19th century: 2nd: 1800: 5,308,483 1800 United States census: 3rd: 1810: 7,239,881 1810 United ...
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.
A Population History of North America (2000) Klein, Herbert S. A population history of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ) excerpt [permanent dead link ] Smith, Daniel Scott. "The demographic history of colonial New England." The journal of economic history 32.01 (1972): 165–183. Online; Smith, Daniel Scott, and Michael ...
Population estimates cannot be considered accurate to more than two decimal digits; for example, the world population for the year 2012 was estimated at 7.02, 7.06, and 7.08 billion by the United States Census Bureau, the Population Reference Bureau, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, respectively, corresponding ...
Asian Americans are the country's fourth-largest group, composing 5.9% of the United States population. The country's 3.7 million Native Americans account for about 1%, [399] and some 574 native tribes are recognized by the federal government. [402] In 2022, the median age of the United States population was 38.9 years. [403]