Demographic history is the reconstructed record of human population in the past.
Given the lack of population records prior to the 1950s, there are many gaps in our record of demographic history.
Historical demographers must make do with estimates, models and extrapolations..
From 1960 to 2022 the population of United States of America increased from 180.67 million to 333.29 million people.
This is a growth of 84.5 percent in 62 years.
The highest increase in the United States was recorded in 1961 with 1.67 percent.
The smallest increase in 2021 with 0.16 percent..
The first federal census, conducted in 1790, found that a fifth of the entire population was African American.
Among whites, three-fifths were English in ancestry and another fifth was Scottish or Irish.
The remainder was of Dutch, French, German, Swedish, or some other background..
Nearly all non-Native American commercial activity was run in small privately owned businesses with good credit both at home and in England
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluding the Mexican War, extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60
In the years after WWII, the United States, as well as a number of other industrialized countries
Richard Easterlin, an economist who has researched economic growth in the United States
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000
