{"history":[],"article":{"id":"ccca59d3-5368-4c9c-864d-ebb9f1977c15","title":"Demographics of the United States","slug":"demographics-of-the-united-states","content":":::summary\n![Population pyramid of the United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/USA///Population///Pyramid.svg)\n**Place:** the [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) \n**Image Size:** 350 \n**Size Of Population:** 335,893,238 (est. 2024) \n**Density:** 86.16 /sqmi \n**Growth:** 0.67% (2024) \n**Birth:** 10.7 births/1,000 population (2023) \n**Death:** 9.2 deaths/1,000 population (2023) \n**Net Migration:** 3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024) \n**Life:** 79.3 years (2023) \n**Net Gain:** 1 person/26 seconds (2021) \n**Life Male:** 76.9 years (2023) \n**Life Female:** 81.8 years (2023) \n**Fertility:** 1.84 born/woman (2024) \n**Under 1 8 Years:** 22.2% (2021) \n**Age 6 5 Years:** 18.5% (2024) \n**Nation:** [American](https://bliptext.com/articles/americans) \n**Major Ethnic:** Whites (61.63%) · Britons (11.71%) · English (7.70%) · Irish (3.29%) · Scots (0.44%) · Scots-Irish (0.11%) · Welsh (0.08%) · Others (0.09%) · Germans (4.69%) · Pennsylvania Germans (0.03%) · Others (4.66%) · White Hispanics (3.80%) · Spaniards (0.56%) · Others (3.24%) · Italians (2.00%) · Poles (0.81%) · French (0.54%) · French-Canadians (0.08%) · Others (0.46%) · Arabs (0.48%) · Lebanese (0.10%) · Egyptians (0.09%) · Others (0.29%) · Norwegians (0.31%) · Russians (0.30%) · Dutch (0.27%) · Swedes (0.24%) · Portuguese (0.18%) · Greeks (0.17%) · Others (35.86%) \n**Minor Ethnic:** Blacks (12.40%) · Black Hispanics (0.35%) · Haitians (0.28%) · Jamaicans (0.24%) · Nigerians (0.15%) · Others (11.38%) · Mixed (10.21%) · Mixed Hispanics (6.12%) · Others (4.09%) · Asians (6.00%) · East, Central and Southeast Asians (4.18%) · Chinese (1.25%) · Filipinos (0.93%) · Vietnamese (0.59%) · Koreans (0.46%) · Japanese (0.22%) · Others (0.73%) · South Asians (1.74%) · Indians (1.33%) · Pakistanis (0.19%) · Others (0.22%) · Asian Hispanics (0.08%) · Natives (1.12%) · Native Hispanics (0.45%) · Aztecs (0.12%) · Mayas (0.06%) · Others (0.27%) · Navajos (0.12%) · Cherokees (0.07%) · Others (0.48%) · Islanders (0.21%) · Hawaiians (0.06%) · Samoans (0.04%) · Islander Hispanics (0.02%) · Others (0.11%) · Some other race (8.42%) · Other Hispanics (7.91%) · Others (0.51%) \n**Official:** No official language at national level. [English](https://bliptext.com/articles/american-english) is designated official in 32 of 50 states (and in all 5 [U.S. territories](https://bliptext.com/articles/territories-of-the-united-states)). [Hawaiian](https://bliptext.com/articles/hawaiian-language) is official in [Hawaii](https://bliptext.com/articles/hawaii), [20 Native languages](https://bliptext.com/articles/alaska-native-languages) are official in [Alaska](https://bliptext.com/articles/alaska), and [Sioux](https://bliptext.com/articles/sioux-language) is official in [South Dakota](https://bliptext.com/articles/south-dakota). [Samoan](https://bliptext.com/articles/samoan-language) is an official language in [American Samoa](https://bliptext.com/articles/american-samoa), [Chamorro](https://bliptext.com/articles/chamorro-language) is an official language in [Guam](https://bliptext.com/articles/guam), [Chamorro](https://bliptext.com/articles/chamorro-language) and [Carolinian](https://bliptext.com/articles/carolinian-language) are official languages in the [Northern Mariana Islands](https://bliptext.com/articles/northern-mariana-islands), and [Spanish](https://bliptext.com/articles/spanish-language) is an official language in [Puerto Rico](https://bliptext.com/articles/puerto-rico). \n**Spoken:** (primary language at home) English 78.5% · Spanish 13.2% · Other Indo-European 3.7% · Asian and Pacific Islander 3.3% · Other 0.8% \n**Footnote:** Source: [The World Factbook](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-world-factbook) \n**Infant Mortality:** 5.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2020) \n:::\n\n# \nThe [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) had an official estimated resident [population](https://bliptext.com/articles/population) of 335,893,238 on Jan 1, 2024, according to the [Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau).\nThis figure includes the [50 states](https://bliptext.com/articles/u-s-state) and [Washington, D.C.](https://bliptext.com/articles/washington-d-c) but excludes the population of five unincorporated U.S. territories ([Puerto Rico](https://bliptext.com/articles/puerto-rico), [Guam](https://bliptext.com/articles/guam), the [U.S. Virgin Islands](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-virgin-islands), [American Samoa](https://bliptext.com/articles/american-samoa), and the [Northern Mariana Islands](https://bliptext.com/articles/northern-mariana-islands)) as well as several [minor island possessions](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-minor-outlying-islands).\nThe United States is the [third most populous country](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-countries-and-dependencies-by-population) in the world, and the [most populous in the Americas](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-countries-in-the-americas-by-population) and the [Western Hemisphere](https://bliptext.com/articles/western-hemisphere).\nThe Census Bureau showed a population increase of 0.4% for the twelve-month period ending in July 2022, below the world estimated annual rate of 1.03%, in 2021.\nThe [total fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/total-fertility-rate) (TFR) is around 1.84 children per woman, as of 2024 which is below the [replacement fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/total-fertility-rate) of approximately 2.1.\nBy several metrics, including racial and ethnic background, religious affiliation, and percentage of rural and urban divide, the state of [Illinois](https://bliptext.com/articles/illinois) is the most representative of the larger demography of the United States.\nThe U.S. population almost quadrupled during the 20th century – at a growth rate of about 1.3% a year – from about 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000.\nIt is estimated to have reached the 200 million mark in 1967, and the 300 million mark on October 17, 2006.\nForeign-born immigration caused the U.S. population to continue its rapid increase, with the foreign-born population doubling from almost 20 million in 1990 to over 45 million in 2015, representing one-third of the population increase.\nThe U.S. population grew by 1.6 million from 2018 to 2019, with 38% of growth from immigration.\nPopulation growth is fastest among minorities as a whole, and according to the Census Bureau's 2020 estimation, 50% of U.S. children under the age of 18 are members of [ethnic minority groups](https://bliptext.com/articles/minorities-in-the-united-states).\nAs of 2020, [white people](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-americans) numbered 235,411,507 or 71% of the population, including people who identified as white in combination with another race.\nPeople who identified as white alone (including Hispanic whites) numbered 204,277,273 or 61.6% of the population and [Non-Latino whites](https://bliptext.com/articles/non-hispanic-or-latino-whites) made up 57.8% of the country's population.\n[Latino Americans](https://bliptext.com/articles/latino-americans) accounted for 51.1% of the total national [population growth](https://bliptext.com/articles/population-growth) between 2010 and 2020.\nThe Hispanic or Latino population increased from 50.5 million in 2010 to 62.1 million in 2020: a 23% increase and a numerical increase of more than 11.6 million.\nImmigrants and their U.S.-born descendants are expected to provide most of the U.S. population gains in the decades ahead.\n[Asian Americans](https://bliptext.com/articles/asian-americans) are the fastest growing racial group in America, with a growth rate of 35%.\nHowever, multi-racial Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the country, with a growth rate of 55%, reflecting the increase of mixed-race marriages in the United States.\n, births to [White American](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-american) mothers remain around 50% of the US total, reflecting a decline of 3% compared to 2021.\nIn the same time period, births to Asian American and Hispanic women increased by 2% and 6%, respectively.\n\n# Population\nOn April 1, 2020, the [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) had a population of 331,449,281, according to the 2020 [United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states) census.\nNote: Population estimate of United States excluding overseas armed forces.\n\n## Age and sex distribution\nAge distribution by selected age groups.\nThe [median age](https://bliptext.com/articles/median-age) of the total population as of 2021 is 38.8 years; the male [median age](https://bliptext.com/articles/median-age) is 37.7 years; the female [median age](https://bliptext.com/articles/median-age) is 39.8 years.\n# [Proportion of Americans under the age of 18 in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Americans///under///the///age///of///18///by///county.png]\n# [Proportion of Americans under the age of 5 in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Americans///under///the///age///of///5///by///county.png]\n\n## Birth rate\n\n## Death rate\n\n## Total fertility rate (TFR)\nThe [total fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/total-fertility-rate) (TFR) is around 1.84 children per woman, as of 2024\nIn 1800 the average U.S. woman had 7.04 children; by the first decade of the 1900s, this number had already decreased to 3.56.\nSince 1971, the birth rate has generally been [below the replacement rate of 2.1](https://bliptext.com/articles/sub-replacement-fertility).\nSince the [Great Recession of 2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/great-recession), the rate has consistently been below replacement.\nThe drop in the TFR from 2.08 per woman in 2007 to 1.76 in 2017 was mostly due to the declining birth rate of ethnic minorities, teenagers and women in their 30s.\nDuring that period, the birthrate for women ages 35 to 44 has risen.\nThe 12 month ending general fertility rate increased from 56.6 to 57.0 in 2022 Q1 compared to 2021 Q4.\n# [TFR of the United States overtime from 1820 to 2016 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Fertility///rate///of///the///United///States///from///1820///to///2016.svg]\n\n## Mother's mean age at first birth\n# [Percentage of women childless by age cohort in the US over time | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Percentage///of///women///childless///by///age///cohort///in///the///US.svg]\n\n## Dependency ratio\nThe [dependency ratio](https://bliptext.com/articles/dependency-ratio) is the age-population ratio of people who are normally not in the labor force (the dependent population, which includes those aged 0 to 14 and 65 and older) to those who are (the productive part, ages 15 to 64).\nIt is used to gauge the strain on the populace that is productive.\nThe support ratio is the ratio of the working-age population to the elderly population, that is, the reciprocal of the aged dependency ratio.\n* Ratios are ranked from highest to lowest by country.\n# [Bi-variate choropleth map comparing the estimated percent of the population 65 and older and 17 and younger in the Contiguous United States by county, 2020 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Comparison///of///ages///in///the///Contiguous///United///States///by///county%2C///2020.jpg]\n# [Life expectancy in the United States since 1880 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Life///expectancy///in///the///United///States.svg]\n# [Life expectancy in the United States since 1960 by gender | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Life///expectancy///by///WBG///-USA///-diff.png]\n\n## Life expectancy\nThe average [life expectancy](https://bliptext.com/articles/life-expectancy) in the United States has been declining since 2014.\nThe [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://bliptext.com/articles/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention) cites three main reasons: a 72% increase in overdoses in the last decade (including a 30% increase in [opioid overdoses](https://bliptext.com/articles/opioid-epidemic-in-the-united-states) from July 2016 to September 2017, but did not differentiate between accidental overdose with a legal prescription and overdose with opioids obtained illegally and/or combined with illegal drugs i.e., heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc.), a ten-year increase in [liver disease](https://bliptext.com/articles/liver-disease) (the rate for men age 25 to 34 increased by 8% per year; for women, by 11% per year), and a 33% increase in [suicide](https://bliptext.com/articles/suicide) rates since 1999.\nWhile increases in mortality from [unintentional injuries](https://bliptext.com/articles/unintentional-injuries), [heart disease](https://bliptext.com/articles/cardiovascular-disease), [homicide](https://bliptext.com/articles/homicide), and [diabetes](https://bliptext.com/articles/diabetes) contributed to 11.7%, 5.8%, 2.9%, and 2.8% of the decrease in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020, respectively.\nLife expectancy has also varied by racial and ethnic group, with Non-Hispanic Asians having the highest life expectancy and Non-Hispanic American Indians having the lowest.\nIn 2021, life expectancy at birth in the United States fell for the second year in a row, the first two-year drop since 1961–1963.\n**NOTE**: Life expectancy at birth data for 2021 are provisional.*\n\n## Life tables\n\n## Density\nThe most densely populated state is [New Jersey](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-jersey) (1,263/mi2 or 488/km2).\nThe population is highly urbanized, with 83.3% of the population residing in cities and suburbs.\nLarge urban clusters are spread throughout the eastern half of the United States (particularly the Great Lakes area, northeast, east, and southeast) and the western tier states; mountainous areas, principally the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian chain, deserts in the southwest, the dense boreal forests in the extreme north, and the central prairie states are less densely populated; Alaska's population is concentrated along its southern coast – with particular emphasis on the city of [Anchorage](https://bliptext.com/articles/anchorage) – and Hawaii's is centered on the island of Oahu.\n[California](https://bliptext.com/articles/california) and [Texas](https://bliptext.com/articles/texas) are the most populous states, as the [mean center of U.S. population](https://bliptext.com/articles/mean-center-of-u-s-population) has consistently shifted westward and southward.\n[New York City](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-city) is the [most populous city in the United States](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-united-states-cities-by-population) and has been since [at least 1790](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-most-populous-cities-in-the-united-states-by-decade).\nIn the [U.S. territories](https://bliptext.com/articles/territories-of-the-united-states), population centers include the [San Juan metro area](https://bliptext.com/articles/san-juan-caguas-guaynabo-metropolitan-area) in [Puerto Rico](https://bliptext.com/articles/puerto-rico), [Saipan](https://bliptext.com/articles/saipan) in the [Northern Mariana Islands](https://bliptext.com/articles/northern-mariana-islands), and the island of [Tutuila](https://bliptext.com/articles/tutuila) in [American Samoa](https://bliptext.com/articles/american-samoa).\n\n## Growth rate\n\n## Births and fertility by race\nA total of 3,659,289 babies were born in 2021, a 1% increase from 2020.\nAdditionally, researchers also looked at births by race and found that White and Hispanic women each saw the number of births increase by about 2% from 2020 to 2021.\nMeanwhile, Black and Asian women saw the number of births decline by 2.4% and 2.5%, respectively, over the same period, while American Indian/Alaskan Native women saw their numbers fall by 3.2%.\nIt also marks the first rise in births since 2014.\nPrior to this report, the total number of births had been decreasing by an average of 2% per year.\nHowever, the [total fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/total-fertility-rate) (the number of births that the average women have over their lifetimes) was 1.6635 births per every woman.\nThis is still below the replacement level, the level a population needs to replace itself, which is, at least, 2.1 births per woman.\n\n### U.S.-born people\nNote: Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number. Also note that growth arrows indicate an increase or decrease in the number of births, not in the fertility rate.\n**NOTE**:\n\n### Percent of births to White Non-Hispanic women that were their 8th+ child, by US state, in 2021\n[New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state): 2.21%, [New Jersey](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-jersey): 1.7%, [Wisconsin](https://bliptext.com/articles/wisconsin): 1.04%, [Arkansas](https://bliptext.com/articles/arkansas): 1.02%, [Montana](https://bliptext.com/articles/montana): 0.86%, [Ohio](https://bliptext.com/articles/ohio): 0.85%, [Iowa](https://bliptext.com/articles/iowa): 0.84%, [Pennsylvania](https://bliptext.com/articles/pennsylvania): 0.82%, [Kansas](https://bliptext.com/articles/kansas): 0.76%, [Kentucky](https://bliptext.com/articles/kentucky): 0.76%, [Utah](https://bliptext.com/articles/utah): 0.75%, [Minnesota](https://bliptext.com/articles/minnesota): 0.75%, [Indiana](https://bliptext.com/articles/indiana): 0.72%, [Wyoming](https://bliptext.com/articles/wyoming): 0.72%, [Mississippi](https://bliptext.com/articles/mississippi): 0.7%, [Michigan](https://bliptext.com/articles/michigan): 0.7%, [Idaho](https://bliptext.com/articles/idaho) 0.65%, [West Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-virginia): 0.64%, [Arizona](https://bliptext.com/articles/arizona): 0.62%, [North Dakota](https://bliptext.com/articles/north-dakota) 0.59%, [South Dakota](https://bliptext.com/articles/south-dakota) 0.54%, [Arkansas](https://bliptext.com/articles/arkansas) 0.51%, [New Mexico](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-mexico): 0.50%, [Maryland](https://bliptext.com/articles/maryland): 0.49%, [Oregon](https://bliptext.com/articles/oregon): 0.46%, [Michigan](https://bliptext.com/articles/michigan): 0.44%, [Oklahoma](https://bliptext.com/articles/oklahoma): 0.44%, [Florida](https://bliptext.com/articles/florida): 0.43%, [Tennessee](https://bliptext.com/articles/tennessee): 0.42%, [Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/virginia): 0.41%, [Illinois](https://bliptext.com/articles/illinois): 0.40%, [Nevada](https://bliptext.com/articles/nevada): 0.40%, [West Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/west-virginia): 0.39%, [Delaware](https://bliptext.com/articles/delaware): 0.38%, [Georgia](https://bliptext.com/articles/georgia-state): 0.36%, [Nebraska](https://bliptext.com/articles/nebraska): 0.36%, [Texas](https://bliptext.com/articles/texas): 0.33%, [Alabama](https://bliptext.com/articles/alabama): 0.33%, [Missouri](https://bliptext.com/articles/missouri): 0.32%, [Vermont](https://bliptext.com/articles/vermont): 0.31%, [South Carolina](https://bliptext.com/articles/south-carolina): 0.30%, [California](https://bliptext.com/articles/california): 0.29%, [Colorado](https://bliptext.com/articles/colorado): 0.29%, [North Carolina](https://bliptext.com/articles/north-carolina): 0.25%, [Alaska](https://bliptext.com/articles/alaska): 0.25%, [Connecticut](https://bliptext.com/articles/connecticut): 0.20%, [New Hampshire](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-hampshire): 0.19%, [Massachusetts](https://bliptext.com/articles/massachusetts): 0.17%.\n\n## Immigration (2023)\nIn 2017, out of the U.S. foreign-born population, some 45% (20.7 million) were naturalized citizens, 27% (12.3 million) were lawful permanent residents (including many eligible to become citizens), 6% (2.2 million) were temporary lawful residents, and 23% (10.5 million) were unauthorized immigrants.\nAmong current living immigrants to the U.S., the top five countries of birth are Mexico (25% of immigrants), China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (5%) and [El Salvador](https://bliptext.com/articles/el-salvador) (3%).\nSome 13% of current living immigrants come from Europe and Canada, and 10% from the Caribbean.\nAmong new arrivals, Asian immigrants have been more numerous than Hispanic immigrants since 2010; in 2017, 37.4% of immigrant arrivals were Asian, and 26.6% were Hispanic.\nUntil 2017 and 2018, the United States led the world in [refugee resettlement](https://bliptext.com/articles/refugee-resettlement) for decades, admitting more refugees than the rest of the world combined.\nFrom fiscal year 1980 until 2017, 55% of refugees came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 13% from Africa, and 4% from Latin America, fleeing war and persecution.\n* (mid-year estimates)\nAs of 2017, 13.6% (44.4 million) of the population was foreign born – an increase from 4.7% in 1970 but less than the 1890 record of 14.8%.\n45% of the foreign born population were naturalized US citizens.\n23% (10.3 million) of the foreign born community is [undocumented](https://bliptext.com/articles/undocumented-immigrants-in-the-united-states), accounting for 3.2% of the total population.\nAccording to the 2010 census, Latin America and the Caribbean is the largest region-of-birth group, accounting for 53% of the foreign born population.\nAs of 2018 this region is still the largest source of immigrants to the United States In 2018, there were almost 90 million immigrants and U.S. born children of immigrants ([second-generation](https://bliptext.com/articles/second-generation-immigrants-in-the-united-states) Americans) in the United States, accounting for 28% of the overall U.S. population.\nIn 2018, 1,096,611 immigrants were granted either permanent or temporary legal residence in the United States\n# [In recent decades, the U.S. has grown from having 9% (1990) to 15% (2020) of the population being born abroad. The slopes of the tops of the differently-colored columns show the rate of percent increase in foreign-born people living in the respective countries. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/1990-///Growth///in///share///of///population///that///is///foreign-born///-///by///country.svg]\n# [Foreign born population percentage in the US over time from 1850 to 2020 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Foreign///born///population///percentage///in///the///US.svg]\n\n# Vital statistics\nAccording to the [U.S. Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau), in 2021, the population of the United States grew at a slower rate than in any other year since the country's founding.\nThe U.S. population grew only 0.1% from the previous year before.\nThe 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.\nApart from the previous few years, when population growth plummeted to historically low levels, the slowest pace of increase in the twentieth century occurred between 1918 and 1919, when the [influenza](https://bliptext.com/articles/influenza) epidemic and [World War I](https://bliptext.com/articles/world-war-i) were both in full swing.\nSlower population growth has been the norm in the United States for some years, owing to lower fertility and net [international migration](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-migration), as well as rising mortality from an aging population.\nTo put it another way, since the mid-2010s, births and net international migration have been dropping while deaths have risen.\nThese trends have a cumulative effect of reduced population increase.\nThe [COVID-19 pandemic](https://bliptext.com/articles/covid-19-pandemic) has accelerated this trend, resulting in a historically slow population increase in 2021.\nThe growth rate is 0.1% as estimated for 2021.\nThe birth rate is 11.0 births/1,000 population, as of 2020.\nThis was the lowest birth rate since records began.\nThere were 3,613,647 births in 2020, this was the lowest number of births since 1980.\nIn 2020, the [CDC](https://bliptext.com/articles/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention) reported that there were 1,676,911 [marriages](https://bliptext.com/articles/marriage-in-the-united-states) in 2020, compared to 2019, there were 2,015,603 [marriages](https://bliptext.com/articles/marriage-in-the-united-states).\nMarriage rates varied significantly by state, ranging from 3.2 marriages/1,000 population in California to 21.0 marriages/1,000 population in Nevada.*\n* Rates are based on provisional counts of marriages by state of occurrence\nIn 2009, [Time magazine](https://bliptext.com/articles/time-magazine) reported that 40% of births were to unmarried women.\nThe following is a breakdown by race for unwed births: 17% Asian, 29% White, 53% Hispanics (of any race), 66% Native Americans, and 72% Black American.\nAccording to the CDC, in 2020, there were at least, 1,461,121 births to unmarried women.\nIn 2020, 40.5% of births were to unmarried women.\nThe following is a breakdown by race for unwed births: 28.4% Non-Hispanic White, 70.4% Non-Hispanic Black, and 52.8% Hispanic (of any race).\nThe drop in the birth rate from 2007 to 2009 is believed to be associated with the [Great Recession](https://bliptext.com/articles/great-recession).\nA study by the [Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality](https://bliptext.com/articles/agency-for-healthcare-research-and-quality) (AHRQ) found that more than half (51 percent) of live hospital births in 2008 and 2011 were male.\nPer U.S. federal government data released in March 2011, births fell 4% from 2007 to 2009, the largest drop in the U.S. for any two-year period since the 1970s.\nBirths have declined for three consecutive years, and are now 7% below the peak in 2007.\nThis drop has continued through 2010, according to data released by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics in June 2011.\nNumerous experts have suggested that this decline is largely a reflection of unfavorable economic conditions.\nThis connection between birth rates and economic downturns partly stems from the fact that American birth rates have now fallen to levels that are comparable to the Great Depression of the 1930s.\nTeen birth rates in the U.S. are at the lowest level in U.S. history.\nIn fact, teen birth rates in the U.S. have consistently decreased since 1991 through 2011, except for a brief increase between 2005 and 2007.\nThe other aberration from this otherwise steady decline in teen birth rates is the 6% decrease in birth rates for 15- to 19-year-olds between 2008 and 2009.\nDespite these years of decrease, U.S. teen birth rates are still higher than in other developed nations.\nRacial differences prevail with teen birth and pregnancy rates as well.\nThe American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic Black teen pregnancy rates are more than double the non-Hispanic white teen birth rate.\n# [Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships in the US, 1970–2000 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Families///US.png]\n# [Median age at first marriage in the US | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Median///age///at///first///marriage///in///the///US.svg]\n\n## U.S. demographic table, 1935–2023\np = provisional data\n\n## Current vital statistics\nAll current numbers in this section are provisional and may change through future updates.\nFor more information, please see the reference link.\n\n## Total fertility rates by state\n\n# U.S. projected population table\nThe United States Census Bureau's 2017 projections were produced using the cohort-component method.\nIn the cohort-component method, the components of population change (fertility, mortality, and net migration) are projected separately for each birth cohort (persons born in a given year).\nThe base population is advanced each year by using projected survival rates and net international migration.\nEach year, a new birth cohort is added to the population by applying the projected fertility rates to the female population.\n\n# Since 1790\nIn 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.\nUnder the law, [the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965](https://bliptext.com/articles/immigration-and-nationality-act-of-1965), the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007.\nAround a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s.\nIn 1900, non-Hispanic whites comprised almost 97% of the population of the 10 largest U.S. [cities](https://bliptext.com/articles/largest-cities-in-the-united-states-by-population-by-decade).\nThe Census Bureau reported that minorities (including Hispanic whites) made up 50.4% of the children born in the U.S. between July 2010 and July 2011, compared to 37% in 1990.\nIn 2014, the state with the lowest fertility rate was Rhode Island, with a rate of 1.56, while Utah had the greatest rate with a rate of 2.33.\nThis correlates with the ages of the states' populations: Rhode Island has the ninth-oldest median age in the US – 39.2 – while Utah has the youngest – 29.0.\nIn 2017, the U.S. birth rate remains well below the replacement level needed – at least 2.1 children per woman so as not to experience population decreases – as white American births fell in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.\nAmong non-Hispanic white women, no states had a fertility rate above the replacement level.\nAmong non-Hispanic Black women, 12 states reached above the replacement level needed.\nAmong Hispanic women, 29 states did.\nFor non-Hispanic white women, the highest total fertility rate was in Utah, at 2.099, and the lowest in the District of Columbia, at 1.012.\nAmong non-Hispanic Black women, the highest total fertility rate was in Maine, at 4.003, and the lowest in Wyoming, at 1.146.\nFor Hispanic women, the highest total fertility rate was in Alabama, at 3.085, and the lowest in Vermont, at 1.200, and Maine, at 1.281.\nDue to the aging and low birth rates among [white people](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-people), deaths now outnumber births among [white people](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-people) (non-Hispanic) in more than half the states in the country.\nIn 2018, U.S. births fell to the lowest level in 32 years.\n\n## Median age of the population\n[Median age](https://bliptext.com/articles/median-age) of the U.S. population through history.\nSource: [U.S. Department of Commerce](https://bliptext.com/articles/u-s-department-of-commerce).\n[Bureau of Census](https://bliptext.com/articles/bureau-of-census), [United States Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau) and [The World Factbook](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-world-factbook).\n\n## Vital statistics\nThe U.S. total [fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/fertility-rate) as of 2020 is 1.641\nOther:\n(**Note** that ≈95% of Hispanics are included as \"white Hispanics\" by CDC, which does not recognize the Census's \"Some other race\" category and counts people in that category as white.)\nSource: National Vital statistics report based on [2010 US Census](https://bliptext.com/articles/2010-us-census) data\n# [States in the US shown with population change 2010 to 2020 census \n{{legend|#ff8080|-2.00% or less}}\n{{legend|#ffbfbf|-0.01% to -1.99%}} \n{{legend|#bfdfff|0% to 0.99%}}\n{{legend|#80bfff|1% to 2.49%}}\n{{legend|#409fff|2.5% to 4.99%}}\n{{legend|#0080ff|5% to 8.99%}}\n{{legend|#0060bf|9% to 11.99%}}\n{{legend|#004080|12% or more|undefined | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Percent///Population///change///by///state///from///2010///-///2020.svg]\n# [One person households in the US over time | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/One///person///households///in///the///US///over///time.svg]\n\n### Total Fertility Rates from 1800 to 2020\nThe [total fertility rate](https://bliptext.com/articles/total-fertility-rate) is the number of children born per woman.\nSources: [Ansley J. Coale](https://bliptext.com/articles/ansley-j-coale), Zelnik and [National Center for Health Statistics](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-center-for-health-statistics).\n\n### Life expectancy at birth from 1901 to 2015\nLife expectancy in the United States from 1901 to 2015.\nSource: [Our World In Data](https://bliptext.com/articles/our-world-in-data) and the [United Nations](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-nations).\n**1901–1950**\n**1901–2015** Source: UN World Population Prospects\n\n### Percent distribution of the total population by age: 1900 to 2015\nSources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, United Nations medium variant projections.\n# [Population pyramid of United States in 1950 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Population///USA///1950.PNG]\n\n# Population centers\nThe United States has dozens of major cities, including 31 [\"global cities\"](https://bliptext.com/articles/global-city) of all types, with 10 in the \"alpha\" group of global cities: [New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-city), [Los Angeles](https://bliptext.com/articles/los-angeles), [Chicago](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago), [Washington, D.C.](https://bliptext.com/articles/washington-d-c), [Boston](https://bliptext.com/articles/boston), [San Francisco](https://bliptext.com/articles/san-francisco), [Miami](https://bliptext.com/articles/miami), [Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia), [Dallas](https://bliptext.com/articles/dallas), and [Atlanta](https://bliptext.com/articles/atlanta).\n, the United States had 56 metropolitan areas with 1 million or more inhabitants.\n(The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Urban Honolulu as the 56th most populous area, with just over 1 million residents. See [Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas](https://bliptext.com/articles/table-of-united-states-metropolitan-statistical-areas).)\n, about 250 million Americans live in or around urban areas.\nThat means more than three-quarters of the U.S. population shares just about three percent of the U.S. land area.\nThe following table shows the populations of the top twenty metropolitan areas.\n\n# Race and ethnicity\n# [449x449px | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Complete///history///of///the///Racial///and///ethnic///demographics///of///the///United///States///in///percentage///of///the///population.svg]\n# [Ethnic origins in the United States | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Ethnic///Origins///in///the///United///States.png]\n# [Ethno-racial makeup of the United States by single year ages in 2020 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Ethno-racial///makeup///of///the///United///States///by///single///year///ages///in///2020.svg]\n\n## Race\nThe [United States Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau) collects racial data in accordance with guidelines provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and these data are based on self-identification.\nMany other countries count multiple races based on origin while America compiles multiple dozens of ethnicity groups into skin color grouping them together.\nThe racial classifications and definitions used by the U.S. Census Bureau are:\nData about race and ethnicity are self-reported to the Census Bureau.\nSince the 2000 census, Congress has authorized people to identify themselves according to more than one racial classification by selecting more than one category.\nOnly one ethnicity may be selected, however, because the Census Bureau recognizes only two ethnicities – \"Hispanic or Latino\" and \"Not Hispanic or Latino\" – which are mutually exclusive since you can be one or the other, but not both.\nThe singular term Hispanic has been supplanted as a federally-recognized ethnicity by the combined \"Hispanic or Latino,\" defined by the Census Bureau as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.\nAccording to the Census Bureau website, the racial composition of the United States in 2021 was:\nAccording to the 2022 [American Community Survey](https://bliptext.com/articles/american-community-survey), the racial composition of the United States in 2022 was:\nHispanic are shown like part of the races.\nSource: [U.S. Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau).\nSource: United States Census Bureau.\nSource: United States Census Bureau.\n# [Population pyramid by race/ethnicity in 2020 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Population///pyramid///of///the///United///States///by///race-ethnicity///in///2020.svg]\n\n## Hispanic or Latino origin\nThe U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines \"Hispanic or Latino\" as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.\nPeople who identify with the terms \"Hispanic\" or \"Latino\" are those who classify themselves in one of the specific Hispanic or Latino categories listed on the decennial census questionnaire and various Census Bureau survey questionnaires – \"Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano\" or \"Puerto Rican\" or \"Cuban\" – as well as those who indicate that they are \"another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin.\"\nPeople who identify their origin as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.\nSource: [U.S. Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau), decennial census of population, 1970 (5-percent sample), 1980 to 2020.\nSource: United States Census Bureau.\nSource: United States Census Bureau.\nNote: Hispanic origin is considered an ethnicity, not a race.\nHispanics may be of any race.\n# [CensusViewer US 2010 Census Latino Population as a heatmap by census tract | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/CensusViewer///US///2010///Census///Latino///Population///as///Heatmap///by///Census///Tract.jpg]\n\n## Indigenous peoples\nAs of 2020, there are 9,666,058 people identifying as [American Indian](https://bliptext.com/articles/native-americans-in-the-united-states) and [Alaska Native](https://bliptext.com/articles/alaska-native) people in the United States, including those identifying with more than one race, representing around 3% of the U.S. population.\nThis number includes not only groups indigenous to the United States, but any [Indigenous people of the Americas](https://bliptext.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas), including [Mesoamerican](https://bliptext.com/articles/mesoamerica) peoples such as the [Maya](https://bliptext.com/articles/maya-peoples), as well as [Canadian](https://bliptext.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-in-canada) and [South American natives](https://bliptext.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-of-south-america).\nIn 2022, 634,503 Indigenous people in the United States identified with Central American Indigenous groups, 875,183 identified with the [Indigenous people of Mexico](https://bliptext.com/articles/indigenous-peoples-of-mexico), and 47,518 identified with Canadian [First Nations](https://bliptext.com/articles/first-nations-in-canada).\nOf the 3.2 million Americans who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone in 2022, around 45% were of [Hispanic or Latino](https://bliptext.com/articles/hispanic-and-latino-americans) ethnicity, with this number growing as increasing numbers of Indigenous people from Latin American countries immigrate to the US and more Latinos self-identify with indigenous heritage.\nOf groups Indigenous to the contiguous United States, the largest self-reported tribes are [Cherokee](https://bliptext.com/articles/cherokee) (1,449,888), [Navajo](https://bliptext.com/articles/navajo) (434,910), Choctaw (295,373), [Blackfeet](https://bliptext.com/articles/blackfeet-nation) (288,255), and [Sioux](https://bliptext.com/articles/sioux) (220,739).\nAdditionally, 205,954 identify with an [Alaska Native](https://bliptext.com/articles/alaska-natives) tribe.\nThere are 573 [federally recognized tribal governments](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-native-american-tribal-entities) in the United States.\nThe US Census Bureau classifies Native Hawaiians separately from American Indians and Alaska Natives, grouping them with [Pacific Islanders](https://bliptext.com/articles/pacific-islander-americans) instead.\nAccording to 2022 estimates, 714,847 Americans identified with Native Hawaiian ancestry.\n\n## Other groups\nThere were 16.1 million [veterans](https://bliptext.com/articles/veteran) in 2022, with only 6.2% of Americans having served in the [Armed Forces](https://bliptext.com/articles/armed-forces).\nIn 2010, [The Washington Post](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-washington-post) estimated that there were 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.\nAs of 2017, Pew Research reported that there an estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.\nIn 2022, an estimated 1,849,176 adults were imprisoned in the US.\n\n## Projections\nA report by the [U.S. Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau) projects a decrease in the ratio of non-Hispanic Whites between 2023 and 2060, a decline from 58.9% of the population to 44.9%.\n[Non-Hispanic Whites](https://bliptext.com/articles/non-hispanic-whites) are projected to no longer make up a majority of the population by 2050, but will remain the largest single ethnic group.\nNon-Hispanic whites made up 85% of the population in 1960.\nWhile non-Hispanic whites are projected to become a minority, the total White population (including Hispanics), will remain a majority from 2023 to 2060, falling from 75.5% to 72.3% of the population who are white alone according to the projections.\nHowever, these projections are not directly comparable to other Census Bureau data, as they are based on a modified race dataset, which does not include the \"[some other race](https://bliptext.com/articles/some-other-race)\" category used in census surveys.\nIndividuals identifying as “some other race” alone or in combination made up 16.2% of the population in 2022, and they are reclassified into recognized race categories in the dataset used for the projections.\nAs a result, there is a significant discrepancy between the share of the white alone population in 2023 according to the projections (75.5%), and the estimated share of white alone (60.9%), as reported by the American Community Survey in 2022.\nThe report foresees the Hispanic or Latino population rising from 19.1% today to 26.9% by 2060, the Black percentage barely rising from 13.6% to 14.8%, and Asian Americans upping their 6.3% share to 9.4%.\nThe United States had a population of 333 million people in July 2023, and is projected to reach 355 million by 2040 and 364 million in 2060.\nIt is further projected that all of the increase in population from 2023 to 2060 will be due to [immigrants](https://bliptext.com/articles/immigration-to-the-united-states).\nOf the nation's children in 2060, 64% are expected to be of a minority ethnicity, up from 51% today.\nApproximately 32% are projected to be Hispanic or Latino (up from 26% in 2023), and 36% are projected to be single-race, non-Hispanic Whites (down from 49% in 2023).\nRacial and ethnic minorities surpassed non-Hispanic whites as the largest group of U.S. children under 5 years old in 2015.\nThe fastest growing racial group in America is [Asian Americans](https://bliptext.com/articles/asian-americans) with a growth rate of 35%, however the multi-racial mixed Asian group is growing even faster, with a growth rate of 55%.\nMulti-racial Asians are therefore the fastest growing demographic group in America.\nIn 2020, it was reported that 51.0% of births were to non-Hispanic white mothers.\nIn 2021, the percentage increased to 51.5%.\nHowever, by 2022 the rate of births to white mothers had declined by 3%, dropping to 50% of all total births.\nIn the same period, the rate of births to Asian and Hispanic women increased by 2% and 6%, respectively.\nThe [United Nations](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-nations) projects a population of just over 400 million in 2060.\nThe country's racial profile will be vastly different, and although whites will remain the single largest ethnic group in the U.S., they will no longer be a majority excluding [White Hispanics](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-hispanic-and-latino-americans) by 2055 according to [Pew Research Center](https://bliptext.com/articles/pew-research-center).\nGrowth in the Hispanic and Asian populations is predicted to almost triple over the next 40 years.\nBy 2055, the breakdown is estimated to be 48% non-Hispanic white, 24% Hispanic, 16% Black, and 14% Asian.\n, 14% of the United States' population is foreign born, compared to just 5% in 1965.\nNearly 39 million immigrants have come to the U.S. since 1965, with most coming from Asia and Latin America.\nThe 2015 Census Report predicts that the percentage of the U.S. population that is foreign-born will continue to increase, reaching 19% by 2060.\nThis increase in the foreign-born population will account for a large share of the overall population growth.\nThe average person in the U.S. of 2060 is likely to be older than the average person of 2018 today, and it is projected that almost one in four people will be 65 or older.\n\n### U.S. Census Census Bureau projections\nNote: \"Minority\" refers to people who reported their ethnicity and race as something other than non-Hispanic White alone in the decennial census.\n\n## Self-reported ancestry\nThis table displays all self-reported [ancestries](https://bliptext.com/articles/ancestries-of-americans) with over 50,000 members, alone or in combination, according to estimates from the 2022 American Community Survey.\nThe total population of the US according to the survey was 333,287,550, and 251,732,240 people reported an ancestry.\nOf these, 175,054,020 reported a single ancestry, and 76,678,224 reported two or more ancestries**.** Hispanic groups are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry:\n# [Most common ancestry group in the United States by county | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Most///common///ancestry///in///the///United///States///by///county.png]\n\n# Religion\n\n## Religious affiliations\nThe table below is based mainly on selected data as reported to the [United States Census Bureau](https://bliptext.com/articles/united-states-census-bureau).\nIt only includes the voluntary self-reported membership of religious bodies with 750,000 or more.\nThe definition of a member is determined by each religious body.\n, the US census bureau reported that about 13% of the population did not identify themselves as a member of any religion.\nIn a Pew Research Survey performed in 2012, Americans without a religion (atheists, agnostics, nothing in particular, etc.) approached the numbers of Evangelical Protestant Americans with almost 20% of Americans being nonreligious (compared to just over 26% being Evangelical Protestant).\nIf this current growth rate continues, by 2050, around 51% of Americans will not have a religion.\nSurveys conducted in 2014 and 2019 by Pew indicated that the percentage of Americans unaffiliated with a religion increased from 16% in 2007 to 23% in 2014 and 26% of the population in 2019.\nAccording to statistical data made by the [Pew Research Center](https://bliptext.com/articles/pew-research-center) in 2021 about 63% of the US population is Christian, 28% is Unaffiliated, 2% is Jewish, 1% follows Buddhism, 1% follows Hinduism, 1% follows Islam and 2% follow traditional religions and others.\nCurrently, the United States has the largest Christian population in the world (approximately 230-250 million) and the largest [Protestant Christian](https://bliptext.com/articles/protestantism-in-the-united-states) population (approximately 150-160 million).\nThe country also has the second largest Jewish community in the world (after Israel) and the largest Buddhist and Hindu communities in the West, as well as the largest number of followers of Islam in North America.\nThe country has about 64 million non-affiliates (only China and Japan have more).\nAccording to [Pew Research Center](https://bliptext.com/articles/pew-research-center) study released in 2018, by 2040, Islam will surpass Judaism to become the second largest religion in the US due to higher immigration and birth rates.

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