Population Geography

Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants.

There is bipartisan support for several proposals to reduce the effects of climate change, especially for large scale tree-plantings to help absorb carbon emissions and offering tax credits to businesses that capture carbon emissions.

Nearly a quarter of all U.S. deaths attributed to the coronavirus have been in just 12 congressional districts.

Some countries where COVID-19 has been deadliest – including the United States and Italy – have populations that skew considerably older than the global average.

California has more immigrant eligible voters (5.5 million) than any other state, followed by New York, Florida, Texas and New Jersey.

Conservative Republicans are about twice as likely as liberal Democrats to prefer a community where the houses are larger and farther apart.

In a growing number of U.S. counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation's changing demographics.

Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast.

In 18 states and the District of Columbia, Latino children accounted for at least 20% of public school kindergarten students in 2017.

The population of Puerto Rico stood at 3.2 million in 2018, its lowest point since 1979 and down sharply from 2017.