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United States: Population

Millions of people · 1790–2025 · 236 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
341 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+0.5%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+0.6%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
2031350.7Forecast
2030349.7Forecast
2029347.8Forecast
2028345.8Forecast
2027344.8Forecast
2026342.9Forecast
2025340.8
2024339.0
2023335.2
2022333.6
2021332.4
2020331.8
2019330.5
2018328.8
2017326.9
2016324.6

Sources

  • Carter et al.1790–2000
  • MeasuringWorth1790–2022
  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Maddison Project Database1820–2022
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Piketty & Zucman1869–2010
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Bordo1880–1997
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis1929–2025
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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