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The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
The population density of the United States is lower than that of many other countries because of the United States' large land area. There are large, sparsely populated areas in parts of the US, like the east-to-west stretch extending from the outskirts of Seattle all the way to Minneapolis , or the north-to-south portion from northern Montana ...
Download QR code; In other projects Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... English: United States Map of Population by State (2015) 580k - 2.8M . 2.8M - 5.28M .
Slower population growth has been the norm in the United States for some years, owing to lower fertility and net international migration, as well as rising mortality from an aging population. [90] To put it another way, since the mid-2010s, births and net international migration have been dropping while deaths have risen.
States in the South and West tended to grow pretty quickly last year while a handful of states saw their populations shrink.
The center of population is the point at which an imaginary, weightless, rigid, and flat (no elevation effects) surface representation of the 50 states (or 48 conterminous states for calculations made prior to 1960) and the District of Columbia would balance if weights of identical size were placed on it so that each weight represented the ...
The Population Reference Bureau says this trend is likely to continue as Census projections suggest the number of Americans 65 and above will increase by 47% by 2050. As the aging population ...
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.