Maps that explain the World
Black Americans compose the 2nd-largest racial group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic Americans. African Americans make up 14.6% (47.8 million) of the U.S. population. In recent decades, there has been an increase in U.S. counties with a predominance of blacks.
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More than half of the global population growth between nowadays and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. Africa has the most significant rate of population increase among other continents.
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In demographics, the center of population is a geographical spot representing a center point of the region’s population. On average, the point nearest to everyone on our planet is in the north of South Asia, with a mean distance of 5,000 kilometers or 3,000 miles.
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Today, the number of children aged 0-4 in the U.S. is 19.7 million. Between 2008 and 2020, the population aged 0-4 years in the United States was declining on average by 0.51 percent every year, although, before that, it rose from 16.6 million persons in 1979 to 21.1 million persons in 2008.
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The U.S. population is distributed unevenly. The Census evaluates that in the U.S. population living across over 3,000 counties. A mere 140, or 4.5%, of U.S. counties, are home to approximately 50% of those people.
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The population of kids aged 14 and under is about 61.4 million in 2020, representing 18.5 percent of the United States population. Population aged 0-14 years of the U.S. fell steadily from 26.9% in 1972 to 18.5% in 2020.
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64.8% of the United States population is of working age (15-64 years). In percentage terms, America’s working-age population achieved its highest rate in 2006 and 2007, when 67.3% of the American population was of working age. Over the last decade, the increase of the non-working-age population — ages 0 to 14 and 65 and older — has exceeded the growth of the working-age population.
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The population aged 65 and older in the United States is 54.1 million. They represented 16 percent of the population, more than 1 in every 7 U.S. citizens. The number of older Americans has grown by 14.4 million (or 36%) since 2009, compared to a rise of 3 percent for the under-65 U.S. population.
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The number of older residents across the U.S. continues to increase, but the increase is not evenly distributed across the nation. Some counties tend to be much older than others.
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The United States is one of the most populated nations in the world, following just behind China and India. A total population count of around 332 million inhabitants and a more-or-less constant population growth over the past decade show that the country has steadily enhanced its living conditions and standards.
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