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Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2020

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 1034 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. 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_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