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Population of the United States, 1790-2020

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 24 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. Steven Manson, Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Katherine Knowles, Tracy Kugler, Finn Roberts, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 19.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2024. doi:10.18128/D050.V19.0

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")
}