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American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015 [update] , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians .
It is probably a reasonable estimate that the foreign born population in the U.S. reached its minimum in about 1815 at something like 100,000, or 1.4% of the population. By 1815 most of the immigrants that arrived before the American Revolution had died, and there had been almost no new immigration.
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans. According to the Census Bureau, these figures likely undercount enslaved people. [2] Shaded blocks indicate periods before the colony was established or chartered, as well as times when it was part of another colony.
One estimate was that in 2009 the US military had 29,000 foreign-born people currently serving who were not American citizens. [65] In 2003, of 1.4 million service members, 37,000 active-duty members were not citizens, and of these, 20% had applied for citizenship. [ 66 ]
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluding the Mexican War, extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 10,000 living in Mexican California. An additional approximate 2,500 foreign-born California residents also became U.S. citizens.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Citizens and nationals of the United States This article is about the people of the United States of America. For a background on their demonym, see American (word). For other uses, see American (disambiguation) and The Americans (disambiguation). For the legal term, see United States ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. First sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States ...