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These reports cover the American experience ranging from immigration to aging population to civil rights to childcare to poverty. Explore this demographic data for a fuller picture of who lives in the US.
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Demographics
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Current selection: Population and society
As of October 2023, 53.7% of American adults were able to access and afford the food they wanted all the time.
The Census Bureau estimates there will be 1.2 million more deaths than births in the year 2100.
The Census Bureau categorizes nearly 50 million Americans as “some other race,” the majority of whom are ethnically Hispanic.
Four of the five states with the greatest percentage of highway bridges in “good” condition are in the South.
Arkansas has improved its road conditions the most since 2000, decreasing the percentage of its roads considered “poor” by 26.8 percentage points over 20 years.
The cost of childcare can exceed $23,000 per year and exceeds the federal government’s definition of affordability in all care settings across most states.
There have been effectively zero deaths per 100 million passenger miles traveled by air in the US each year from 2002 to 2020.
In 2022, the US admitted 306 green card recipients per 100,000 citizens, significantly lower than the peak rate in 1907 of nearly 1,500 recipients per 100,000 citizens.
In 2022, more than 8% of the US population lived in a multigenerational household, the majority of whom are non-white, under 18, or born in other countries.
The largest increase in immigration came from Mexico, with nearly double the number of immigrants coming to the US in 2021 compared to 2006.
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