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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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Crime rate
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Jails and prisons
Police and Law Enforcement
Border security
Foreign affairs
Military
Veterans
Agriculture
Debt
Economic indicators
Exports and imports
Inflation
Jobs and unemployment
Standard of living
Taxes
Trade
Wealth and savings
Education spending
Higher education
K-12
Climate
Energy
Environmental protection
Natural resources
Wildfires
Consumer and employee safeguards
Disasters and emergency relief
Foreign Aid
Government employment
Government institutions
Government revenue and spending
Government-run business
Regulation
State and local government
COVID-19
Health insurance
Health outcomes
Healthcare
Aging population
Child care
Civil rights
Demographics
Foster care and adoption
Immigration
Politics
Poverty
Transportation and infrastructure
US Regions
Current selection: Population and society
Congress is older, more educated, and made up of a higher share of men than the US population.
For a middle-income family, housing accounts for the largest share of child-rearing costs at 28%.
Members of Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012, will turn 12–27 years old in 2024. What does the data reveal about this generation?
There were 160.7 million valid US passports in circulation in 2023, up 36.8% from 2013.
The median processing time for family-based immigration applications — for spouses, dependent children, and parents of US citizens — rose from 4.7 months to 11.8 months between 2013 and 2023.
Nearly 40% of 2022 international adoptees were born in one of three countries: Colombia (235), India (223), and South Korea (141).
The Airport and Airway Trust Fund collects revenue from air travel-related taxes and uses it to fund the FAA. In FY 2022, passenger taxes were 71.3% of AATF revenue — but funding depends on congressional extensions for the AATF.
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.
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