How has the population of each American state evolved over the last decade?

Jul 19, 2021

Pictured here is California, which is home to five of the fastest-growing urban U.S. cities

The U.S. is the third most-populated country in the world. Image: Unsplash/Andrii Ganzevych

Iman Ghosh

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this visualization shows how the U.S. population has transformed across every state from 2010-2020

The U.S. population by state from 2010 - 2020. Image: Visual Capitalist

this graph shows the U.S. population growth as a percentage change by decade

U.S. population growth from 1910 - 2020. Image: U.S. Census Bureau (2021), Brookings

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this graph shows the entire U.S. population by state in 2020

Between 2010 and 2020, the U.S. experienced a population growth of around 22.7 million people. Image: Visual Capitalist

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