Population Change Between 1940-2000

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Demography is the science of human populations and their change over time, and the United States Census reveals important demographic changes decade-by-decade that affect politics, government and public policy. One of the most important demographic trends is that the U.S. has become a far more multicultural and multilingual society than it was in 1960, due in part from changes in the immigration laws in 1965 that abolished the quota system of the National Origins Act that favored European immigrants. As a result, Asians and Hispanics have been the majority of new immigrants over the past forty years and states like California and Texas already have majority-minority populations or soon will have. At some point in the 21st Century, the U.S. as a whole is going to become a majority-minority society for the first time in its history. Another major demographic trend is the rapid growth of the over-65 population as the Baby Boom generation begins to retire, which will mean heavier expenditures on federal entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security. Elderly voters are also the most politically active group, especially when protecting these key safety net programs, and this has become a major political and public policy issue in recent years.

•    Analyze the changes and continuities in demographic changes in the Americas in the period from 1450 to 1914.

The definition of socioeconomic status; The social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. (American Psychological Association.) I’m going to compare and contrast the education, occupation, income and poverty during the 1900’s and compare that these things in today’s world. Some things were better back then and some things are better now. I will also be comparing the poverty rates from the 1900’s to the 2000’s.

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.

The United States grew at a dramatic rate between the years 1880 and 1900, within the cities. U.S. cities grew by approximately 15 million people in the two decades before 1900. Many historians claim that most of the population growth was due to the expansion of industry. It is also believed that the majority of the population explosion was immigrants that were arriving from all over the world. A good amount of people from the rural areas of America also moved to the cities during this period in the search of work. Between 1880 and 1890, it is suggested that almost 40 percent of the townships in the United States lost population because of migration.

Colby, S. & Ortman, J. (2015). Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to

The human population rate has changed throughout the ages. By looking at the table we were given the human population has increased heaps from 2000 years ago. If we look at our ancestors they lived with a small existence but this has changed as we have developed and there is more agriculture in this world. Population grew very slowly in the 1000 A.D. also decreased after the Black Death causing large numbers of people wiped out. Then in the 1800 A.D. the industrial revolution came, soon living standards were raised and there was food shortage with the population. In 1927 medicine was introduced this meant that there was increased life expectancy, so the human population grew more. There was more advantages from agriculture, medicine and sanitation

The population of the United States continues to change as reflected by the students at

2011 is a stationary population pyramid. There is roughly an even amount of people in each age group except that there are less people aged 70 and up. For 1995, it is an expansive pyramid because there are a lot more people in the younger ages. There was a large workforce with a lot of younger aged people in the dependency load. Both pyramids reflect a high birth rate, there are a lot of children under the age of 4 in the Northwest Territories.

The population for the State of Ohio was compared in an annual estimate of the population for Ohio Counties: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006. According

The population density was 5,686 people per square mile (2,195/km²). With a population growth rate of 0.7%.

The overpopulation numbers in reality make everyone a contender in this lustrous game of dreams. It is turning the dream for an opportunity to make it a reality into just an illusion. “Here too we see the dynamic quality of the dream” California might offer many an opportunity to turn those dreams into a reality. The competition is fierce as everyone is a contender. Rawls declares that, “California became the nation’s most populous state […]” (Rawls). Therefore,

It is predicted by the year 2050 the world's population will have increased to over 9 billion people. (International...) If this prediction comes true the world will become overpopulated and cause problems like famine, the world already struggles with feeding the amount of people alive today. A second problem is housing, in underdeveloped countries there is already a struggle with giving people places to live, so companies clear land to build houses but that leads to habitat loss and animal loss. The third reason is disease, if a disease was started and spread when the world was overpopulated the disease could eliminate half of the human population.

There are many reasons for changes in family size over the past 100 years. Family size has been changing in all of the world’s industrial societies.