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While the population of minorities (defined as anyone who is not fully non-Hispanic white) in the US accounts for 139.8 million of 331.5 million US residents in 2020, 18.5% of the national total live in California (2020). [35] California has the highest number and second highest percentage of Asian Americans by state.
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.
Population density is defined as the population divided by land area. Data are from the US Census unless otherwise specified. Population data are for the year 2023 [2] and area data are for the year 2010. [3] Some population estimates for territories are from the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. [4]
Population growth remained strong in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire, but the majority of California counties saw declines in 2021.
For the first time since 2020, California's population rose last year as COVID-19-related deaths waned and migration and immigration patterns shifted.
Overall, California's population loss slowed considerably from the first year of the data set to the second. In 2020-21, the state lost 0.91% of its population. The following year, it lost just 0.29%.
For well over a century (1900–2020), California experienced steady population growth. Even while the rate of growth began to slow by the 1990s, some growth continued into the first two decades of the 21st century; California added an average of around 400,000 people per year to its population during the period 1940–2020.
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020.Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, [1] this was the first U.S. census to offer options to respond online or by phone, in addition to the paper response form used for previous censuses.