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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.
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.
United States, a citizenship case decided in the Supreme Court, overturns the decision in United States v. Schwimmer (1929). April 23 The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (later the Continental Basketball Association (CBA)) is founded. Howard Hughes's Western movie The Outlaw (1943), starring Jane Russell, goes on general release.
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [39] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [40] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [41] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [42]
According to a 2024 Pew Research Center report, the number of Americans aged 100 or over is likely to quadruple by 2054 as baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, enter retirement age.
The term "baby boom" is often used to refer specifically to the post–World War II (1946–1964) baby boom in the United States and Europe. In the US the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). [22] An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this period. [23]
When the United States declared independence in 1776, Philadelphia was its most populous city. By the time the first U.S. census count was completed in 1790, New York City had already grown to be 14% more populous than Philadelphia (though Philadelphia still had the larger metropolitan population in 1790).
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). [1] The US Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964 (shown in red). [2]The middle of the 20th century was marked by a significant and persistent increase in fertility rates in many countries, especially in the Western world.