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New York City's total population more than doubled between 1900 and 2010 (with a period of population stagnation between 1950 and 1990). [1] The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island experienced enormous population growth between 1900 and 2010, much higher than New York's average population growth. [ 1 ]
[54] [55] By 2013, the population of foreign-born individuals living in New York City had increased to 3.07 million, and as a percentage of total population, was the highest it had been in the past 100 years. [56] Throughout its history, New York City has been a principal port of entry for immigration to the United States.
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 ...
New York City's population exceeded 8 million for the first time in the 2000 census; [137] further records were set in the 2010 and 2020 censuses. [138] Important new economic sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged. [139] The World Trade Center, in Lower Manhattan, during the September 11 attacks in 2001
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1528. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
More than 56,000 migrants are currently under New York City's care, costing the city more than $1 billion a year. New York state's net population increase comes after years of declines from ...
The center of population of New York is located in Orange County, in the town of Deerpark. Roughly 64% of the state's population lives in the New York City metropolitan area and 40% in New York City alone. [3] The Manhattan Chinatown (紐約華埠). Chinese people constitute the fastest-growing demographic nationality in New York State. [4] [5] [6]