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Substantial immigration kept the population rising at 20% or more for each decade until 1920, when the effect of World War I reduced it to 14.9%. After a small rise in the next decade, the decade of The Great Depression gave America its lowest decadal increase ever at 7.2%.
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
In the past four centuries, the population of the United States has grown from a recorded 350 people around the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1610, to an estimated 331 million people in...
The ages, races, and population density of the United States tell a story. Understand the shifts in demographic trends with these charts visualizing decades of population data.
Chart and table of U.S. population from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.
The United States Census Bureau's 2017 projections were produced using the cohort-component method. In the cohort-component method, the components of population change (fertility, mortality, and net migration) are projected separately for each birth cohort (persons born in a given year).
Access demographic, economic and population data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Explore census data with visualizations and view tutorials.
Population figures for the decades before the first U.S. census in 1790 are estimates.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census. As required by the United States Constitution, a census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790.
Get a quick portrait of the U.S. by decade with pop culture milestones, population highlights, census details, and the 10 largest urban places.