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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.
In 2020, there were 80,000 people over 100, an increase of around 50% since 2010. ... Conversely, states with the lowest percentage of adults over 85 years old included Utah, at 1.2%, and Alaska ...
The United States is the third most populous country in the world, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere, with an estimated population of 340,110,988 on July 1, 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] This was an increase of 2.6% over the 2020 federal census of 331,449,281 residents. [2]
For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
The census recorded a resident population of 331,449,281 in the 50 states and the national capital of Washington, D.C., reflecting an increase of 7.4 percent, or 22,703,743, over that of 2010. [3] The growth rate was the second-lowest ever recorded, and the net increase was the sixth-highest in history.
This year, international migration accounted for 84% of the population growth between 2023 and 2024, with 2.8 million people moving to the U.S. both legally and illegally.
More than 19,000 votes were cast, in a stark contrast to the more than 666,000 voters who participated in the state-run Democratic primary in 2020. Biden earns over 85% of votes in Missouri ...
34.9% of Americans over the age of 25 had educational attainment of having a bachelor's degree or higher in 2019. The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%.