Annual Population Estimates by State
The Census Bureau's official population estimate for every state, the District of Columbia and the United States as a whole on July 1 of every year since 1970, with what drove each year's change since 2000: births, deaths, people moving in from abroad and people moving between states. Use it to set a state's growth beside its neighbours' or the nation's over half a century, to rank the states, or to see whether a state is gaining people from the rest of the country or losing them to it.
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- US Census Bureau
- Source
- Census
- Original data
- www2.census.gov
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- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
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What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 16 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | State FIPS code; 00 for the United States |
name | State name, or United States |
year | The estimate is for July 1 of this year |
vintage | The current release (postcensal) or the census a revised decade ends on (intercensal: 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 or 2020) |
series | postcensal (2020 on) or intercensal (1970–2019) |
pop_estimate | Resident population on July 1 |
estimates_base | April 1 census count or estimates base (1970, 1980, 2000, 2010 and 2020 rows only) |
pop_change | Change since the previous July 1 |
births | Births in the year to July 1 |
deaths | Deaths in the year to July 1 |
natural_change | Births less deaths |
international_mig | Net international migration |
domestic_mig | Net migration from other states (zero for the United States) |
net_mig | Net migration, international plus domestic |
residual | Change not attributed to a component |
gq_estimate | Group quarters population on July 1 |