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Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2010

Source: R/us-state-populations.R
us_state_populations.Rd

Population figures for US states and territories from the decennial census.

Usage

us_state_populations

Format

A data frame with 983 observations of 4 variables.

Variables

  • year: date of the census.

  • state: name of the state or territory.

  • population: population of the state or territory.

  • GISJOIN: a unique identifier for joining NHGIS data to spatial data.

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_state_populations)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#>   GISJOIN  year state         population
#>   <chr>   <int> <chr>              <int>
#> 1 G090     1790 Connecticut       237655
#> 2 G100     1790 Delaware           59096
#> 3 G130     1790 Georgia            82548
#> 4 G240     1790 Maryland          319728
#> 5 G250     1790 Massachusetts     475199
#> 6 G330     1790 New Hampshire     141899