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The U.S. population grew only 0.1% from the previous year before. [92] The United States' population has grown by less than one million people for the first time since 1937, with the lowest numeric growth since at least 1900, when the Census Bureau began yearly population estimates. [92]
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.
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.
The population decreased most over one year in these cities. Spring Valley, Nevada, had the largest one year-drop at -10.14%, after losing just over 22,000 people from 2022 to 2023.
While the number of people over 85 has increased in all states since 2010, the largest growth was in Nevada (41.5%), Alaska (38.4%), and Texas (30%). The reasons for these shifting demographics ...
New York City experienced the largest total population drop by a city up to this point in American history, recording 820,000 fewer people in 1980 than ten years before. The city government was crippled by severe financial strains and near bankruptcy as a result of its declining tax base during the 1970s, until being bailed out by the federal ...
The median age for the U.S. population is projected to increase in all of the scenarios the Census Bureau measured. In 2022, the median U.S. age was 38.9 years old. By 2100, the median age could ...