An Exploritary Data Analysis of the US Population by Jeric Ortillo
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The United States is one of the biggest and fastest growing countries in the world.
In this data story, we will be exploring the United States population.
In the year 2000, the United States Population was around 280 million.
The population steadily grew to about 327 million in the year 2018.
The United States population has grew about 47 million since the past 2 decades!
From looking at the choropleth map, California has stayed the #1 most populated state, going from about 34 million to 39 million.
Texas stayed the #2 most populated state and New York stayed at #3 throughout the past 2 decades.
From looking at the choropleth map over time, we see usually that the more populated states grew signifcantly while the least populated states barely grew.
From 2000 to 2018, California grew about 5 million, Texas grew about 8 million, and Florida grew about 5 million,
while the least populated states such as Alaska grew about 100 thousand, Vermont grew about 20 thousand and etc.
Now that we took a look at the United States population, let's see how it compares to the world!
Comparing the United States to other countries in the world in the year 2018, we see that the United States is the 3rd most populated country,
falling behind China and India and coming after Indonesia and Pakistan.
The United States, is a very diverse country. Many people of different race lives in the United States.
We will be looking at the United States population categorized by race.
From looking at the pie chart, it seems like the population is mostly white dominant.
However, it seems like as time goes on, it seems like the population becomes less white dominant,
as other races grow in population and the United States become more diverse.
Now that we look through the United States population over time, let's see how the population will grow in the future.
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From looking at the projection, its seems like the United States is steadily growing about 10 million every 10 years.
When the year 2060 reaches, the United States population is projected to be around 400 million, which is about a 70 million increase since 2018!