Census Bureau Nation Population

The United States is the third most populated country in the world. This country holds about 4.5% of the world’s population. The U.S. population is currently estimated to have 308.7 million persons. This number is more than double of the population from 1950. Besides the fact of the population has doubled its size, the population has also become qualitatively different from the one from 1950. As noted by the Population Reference Bureau, “The U.S. is getting bigger, older, and more diverse.” The growth of the population is the result of the trends over time in the relationship of increased births, decreased deaths, and increased net immigration.

In 1996 the largest population consisted of people aged 30-50, there were not as many people in the dependency load. In 2011, there were more people aged 40-65, who are getting close to retirement. There are not as many babies being born today as previous years because people are choosing to not have as many children. The baby boomers are getting older and there will soon be more people in the dependency load as the workforce. In 2011 there were more people ages 85 and up because nowadays people have been able to live longer.

In Chapter 15: Aging and the Elderly, the U.S. birth rate has been falling for more than a century. It happens because children are more likely to survive into adulthood, and so couple have fewer children. As more women work outside the home, they choose to have fewer children. Greater material wealth and advances in medicine have raised living standards so that people benefit from better housing and more nutrition. The oldest segment of the U.S. population, is increasing rapidly and is already forty times greater than in 1900.

“If the United States should grow for the next two hundred years, at the same rate we grew during the last two hundred years there would be three times as many people in the United States than in entire world today. Such a scenario is not only a nightmare- it is likely impossible, America at some point, must stabilize its population.”

The population growth in the United States, has been booming because of the growing population of immigration and new borns coming to the world. Immigrants that were coming into the United

According to the December 2012 United States Census Bureau Population Projection, the nation will continue its trend of consistent diversification. By 2024, the non-Hispanic white population will show a decrease in numbers. Minorities including Hispanics, African Americans and Asians will double, and other groups will increase by at least half. Eventually, non-Hispanic whites will not be seen as a majority, but as an equally represented group among its ethnic counterparts (U.S. Bureau, 2014). This projection can not be transposed to the country’s nursing population. Non-Hispanic white nurses often vastly outnumber other groups (Bessent, 2009, p6). The nursing workforce needs to actively and continually diversify its professionals to provide competent care for the nation’s ever-changing population.

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

During the first decade of the new millennium, the average population growth rate was 1%. The greatest increase in California’s population occurred in the year 2000, the year before a recession, with a one year growth rate of 1.48%. The smallest increase took place in 2006, which was at the height of the Millennium Boom, when the population only rose by 0.5%. The growth hadn’t been this low since WWII. Many different factors play a role in the fluctuation of numbers in California’s population such as birth and death rates, migration, cultural trends, environmental, and most importantly of all the economy (Golden state population trends,

The United States already had an overpopulation problem. Now that the population is growing even more we have more cities and states being overpopulated. According to Support U.S. Population Stabilization (SUSPS), if our population trend continues, we will be able to add enough population to create another New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Indianapolis, San Jose, Memphis, Washington D.C., Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Boston, Columbus, New Orleans, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, and El Paso - plus the next 75 largest cities in the U.S. - by 2020. According to Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), low-ranking countries have high population growth and high ranking countries have lower population

The U.S. population primarily is growing as a result of births in the minority and immigrant

The purpose of the author writing this essay is to inform the public of the phenomenal amounts of grandmothers who die during college exams. The author uses The National Census Bureau, The National Enquirer, and his own personal findings to compile data. The National Census Bureau has a lot of credible data because it is a government website designed to categorize information and statistics. The National Enquirer is a news tabloid paper with no scientific data backing its claims. The author succeeds up until the point he mentioned using an entertainment magazine as a credible source of

According to The United States Census Bureau, the United States population accounts for less than 5 percent of the world population. The United States, however, houses more than 20% of the world inmate population. From 1978 to 2014, there has been a sharp increase of the inmate population to the tune of over 400% - an alarming number that is not likely to decrease anytime soon (ACLU, n.d.). The United States government has placed tougher sanctions and punishments on criminals since the late 1970s, which has led to this massive growth in prison population, but are these harsh methods effective? Instead of a place for rehabilitation, prison is a breeding ground for criminal enterprises. Serious issues such as sexual assault, drugs abuse,

1998 Number (Thous.) 19,117 39,396 19,426 17,451 18,568 20,189 22,579 21,811 18,813 15,707 22,662 34,823 270,542 U.S. Population Projections 1998 2005 2005 % of Number % of Total (Thous.) Total 7.1 19,127 6.7 14.6 40,147 14.0 7.2 20,997 7.3 6.5 19,960 7.0 6.9 18,057 6.3 7.5 18,249 6.4 8.4 19,802 6.9 8.1 22,363 7.8 7.0 21,988 7.7 5.8 19,518 6.8 8.4 29,606 10.4 12.9 36,970 12.9 100.4 286,784 100.2 2015 Number (Thous.) 21,174 40,795 21,194 21,876 20,836 20,248 18,872 18,726 19,594 21,602 39,650 45,832 310,399 2015 % of Total 6.8 13.2 6.8 7.1 6.7 6.5 6.1 6.0 6.3 7.0 12.8 14.8 100.1

Statics stated by 2020 the labor force is projected to reach more than 146 million U.S. citizens, a 5.9 percent from today. Economists predict the labor force participation rate will decrease over the coming decades, as an aging

A drop in net immigration to the United States is a key factor that has contributed to the aging of the US population. According to the U.S. census Bureau, “there have been a drop in immigration levels in the United States”, which, mean that a smaller share of U.S. population growth can directly attribute to immigration similar to natural increase these can also be related to jobs losses that are normally filled by immigrants such as construction jobs, and manufacturing jobs. Declining fertility rates are also a key factor in the United States. “In the past the 18 and under have exceeded the 65 and older, but now have declined by 190,000 per the Census Bureau in 2010 and 2011 while the elderly have increased by 917,000. Working-age adults, and those in childbearing ages, is also down”. There is also a decline in fertility rates as well, they estimated 4 billion birth between 2010 and 2011 which is down from the 4.2 that was between 2005 and 2006.