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Population of the United States, 1790-2010

Source: R/us-national-population.R
us_national_population.Rd

Population figures for the entire United States of America from the decennial census.

Usage

us_national_population

Format

A data frame with 23 observations of 2 variables.

Variables

  • year: date of the census.

  • population: population of the state or territory.

References

This dataset has been gathered by the NHGIS. Minnesota Population Center, National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011).

Examples

head(us_national_population)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#>    year population
#>   <int>      <int>
#> 1  1790    3929625
#> 2  1800    5308483
#> 3  1810    7239881
#> 4  1820    9638239
#> 5  1830   12860702
#> 6  1840   17063353
if(require(ggplot2)) {
  ggplot(us_national_population,
         aes(x = year, y = population)) +
  geom_line() +
  ggtitle("Population of the United States, 1790-2010")
}