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Title: United States Census Figures back to 1630

Author: U.S. Census of Population and Housing
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census

Release Date: June 5, 2008 [EBook #115]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNITED STATES CENSUS 1630-1991 ***

A Few Words About These United States Population Statistics.

All figures listed below for years before 1992 are US Census
Bureau figures as per the source files. Where there were an
assortment of figures for a specific year, we averaged them.
1992 was an estimate. Years after 1992 are our estimates on
a predicted growth rate of 1%, as the average growth rate of
all the averaged figures from 1972-1992 was exactly 1.00%.

The raw data from which we took these figures is appended as
footnote #2. All dates not given are presumed to be July 1,
as that is the official date given by the US Census Bureaus,
over the years, except where otherwise noted. Dates are for
footnoted figures only.

Why and How You Should Use These Tables

Given the rapid inflation that took place sometimes over the
past few decades, you might be aware that if a report said a
certain monetary figure was up 10% during one decade, it was
prudent to check to see if the figures took the inflationary
trends into account to tell you the actual value a figure in
one year might represent would actually be less than figures
which counted more value in lesser numbers of dollars in the
previous decade.

Thus you would be wise to consult a table of Price Indices--
such as the file "price10.txt" released in 1993, before your
evaluation of such figures is complete.

The same is true of population figures, which are going up a
certain amount every year, in a very similar manner to those
price index figures, only not quite as fast, in most cases.

What Started This Report

Very recently, there was a report issued