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United States population

UN name: United States of America

United States population now

349,455,996

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 347.7–352.2 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 343,477,335

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 349.036 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 347.7–352.2 million
Median age: 39.7
Aged 65+: 18.8%

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USA · 1950–2100 · in brief

United States in numbers

The UN counts 343,477,335 people in The United States in mid-2023, which makes it the 3rd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 4.2% of the world's people. That is 2.2 times its 1950 population of 154 million.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 421 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 257 million to 623 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2042 on. The population still grows to 2100, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 30.0 in 1950 and 39.0 in 2023; the projection has 46.3 in 2100. 17.4% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 28.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Among countries it ranks 3rd in 2023, 3rd in 2050 and 6th in 2100. It is overtaken by Pakistan in 2053 and Nigeria in 2057.

Population, mid-2023: 343,477,335
Rank by population, 2023: 3 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 4.2%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.57% · +1,943,289 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 38
Land area, 2023: 9,147,420 km²
Births, 2023: 3,657,476
Deaths, 2023: 2,975,658
Net migration, 2023: +1,322,668
Children per woman, 2023: 1.62
Median age, 2023: 39.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 79.3 years
In a city, 2025: 35 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 154,202,681
Projected, mid-2050: 380,846,910
Projected, mid-2100: 421,278,890

USA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: United States, 1950–2100

United States: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	153,067,374		3,697,926	1,479,687	3.09	68.1
1951	estimate	155,337,987		3,810,644	1,502,725	3.20	68.2
1952	estimate	157,624,659		3,900,093	1,509,926	3.29	68.4
1953	estimate	159,963,785		3,954,926	1,520,814	3.36	68.7
1954	estimate	162,372,846		4,069,617	1,477,211	3.48	69.5
1955	estimate	164,899,771		4,094,908	1,512,644	3.52	69.6
1956	estimate	167,500,278		4,204,606	1,541,404	3.62	69.6
1957	estimate	170,149,642		4,285,950	1,600,220	3.70	69.4
1958	estimate	172,848,811		4,345,661	1,606,225	3.75	69.7
1959	estimate	175,581,808		4,349,362	1,607,085	3.75	69.9
1960	estimate	178,709,721		4,370,880	1,663,922	3.73	69.8
1961	estimate	181,839,389		4,379,242	1,659,388	3.69	70.3
1962	estimate	185,139,581		4,268,551	1,724,774	3.53	70.1
1963	estimate	188,308,964		4,185,449	1,792,424	3.39	69.9
1964	estimate	191,341,489		4,125,771	1,788,484	3.26	70.2
1965	estimate	194,297,415		3,895,103	1,827,280	2.98	70.3
1966	estimate	197,010,133		3,746,479	1,873,625	2.77	70.2
1967	estimate	199,520,679		3,645,103	1,872,053	2.60	70.5
1968	estimate	201,879,144		3,629,481	1,960,250	2.51	70.2
1969	estimate	204,142,895		3,748,362	1,957,832	2.50	70.5
1970	estimate	206,457,170		3,894,161	1,960,713	2.52	70.7
1971	estimate	209,135,508		3,718,310	1,970,015	2.32	71.1
1972	estimate	211,717,355		3,417,716	2,000,826	2.06	71.2
1973	estimate	213,967,790		3,301,844	2,007,479	1.92	71.4
1974	estimate	216,045,312		3,322,229	1,966,876	1.87	72.0
1975	estimate	218,107,641		3,309,291	1,921,062	1.81	72.5
1976	estimate	220,150,961		3,335,451	1,935,449	1.78	72.8
1977	estimate	222,186,554		3,489,832	1,921,163	1.83	73.2
1978	estimate	224,332,284		3,516,171	1,945,060	1.80	73.4
1979	estimate	226,459,908		3,654,688	1,927,896	1.84	73.8
1980	estimate	228,690,259		3,745,108	2,004,240	1.86	73.7
1981	estimate	231,027,051		3,759,893	1,993,821	1.85	74.1
1982	estimate	233,376,184		3,806,566	1,992,789	1.85	74.5
1983	estimate	235,790,119		3,769,043	2,039,393	1.83	74.5
1984	estimate	238,182,611		3,781,908	2,061,977	1.83	74.7
1985	estimate	240,525,324		3,844,129	2,112,669	1.85	74.7
1986	estimate	242,855,563		3,835,775	2,132,381	1.85	74.7
1987	estimate	245,052,052		3,889,634	2,151,956	1.89	74.9
1988	estimate	247,270,530		3,984,018	2,199,391	1.94	74.8
1989	estimate	249,515,940		4,097,527	2,180,294	2.01	75.1
1990	estimate	251,834,166		4,172,065	2,178,344	2.07	75.4
1991	estimate	254,912,608		4,114,563	2,199,356	2.06	75.5
1992	estimate	258,030,237		4,050,344	2,203,669	2.04	75.8
1993	estimate	261,181,802		3,970,052	2,295,668	2.01	75.6
1994	estimate	264,084,660		3,906,002	2,305,017	1.99	75.7
1995	estimate	266,864,960		3,845,004	2,336,341	1.97	75.8
1996	estimate	269,546,629		3,824,283	2,337,804	1.96	76.2
1997	estimate	272,174,763		3,807,342	2,337,761	1.96	76.5
1998	estimate	274,761,262		3,849,741	2,358,738	1.98	76.7
1999	estimate	277,477,403		3,872,873	2,413,014	1.99	76.7
2000	estimate	280,093,565		3,956,650	2,423,915	2.03	76.8
2001	estimate	282,874,696		3,930,346	2,432,919	2.01	76.9
2002	estimate	285,684,581		3,924,849	2,461,850	2.00	77.0
2003	estimate	288,484,095		3,983,291	2,466,660	2.02	77.1
2004	estimate	291,332,104		4,014,648	2,419,816	2.03	77.5
2005	estimate	294,240,403		4,055,468	2,472,159	2.04	77.5
2006	estimate	297,192,924		4,179,497	2,452,677	2.09	77.8
2007	estimate	300,267,495		4,232,701	2,450,594	2.10	78.0
2008	estimate	303,420,956		4,184,010	2,502,101	2.05	78.1
2009	estimate	306,519,709		4,089,073	2,468,890	1.99	78.5
2010	estimate	309,527,200		3,978,953	2,502,224	1.92	78.7
2011	estimate	312,598,380		3,942,528	2,553,165	1.88	78.7
2012	estimate	315,611,776		3,942,569	2,567,418	1.86	78.8
2013	estimate	318,618,933		3,930,896	2,611,128	1.84	78.8
2014	estimate	321,602,585		3,984,348	2,631,369	1.85	78.9
2015	estimate	324,628,169		3,982,193	2,707,670	1.83	78.7
2016	estimate	327,624,824		3,952,809	2,732,732	1.80	78.7
2017	estimate	330,734,029		3,872,480	2,795,947	1.75	78.7
2018	estimate	333,675,290		3,816,077	2,818,628	1.72	78.8
2019	estimate	336,437,705		3,772,693	2,842,471	1.68	78.9
2020	estimate	339,142,428		3,641,990	3,384,290	1.62	77.0
2021	estimate	339,729,889		3,681,202	3,492,881	1.63	76.4
2022	estimate	340,592,993		3,750,379	3,187,302	1.67	78.0
2023	estimate	342,475,098		3,657,476	2,975,658	1.62	79.3
2024	estimate	344,479,572		3,654,449	3,046,569	1.62	79.5
2025	projection	346,373,570	345.8–347.1 million	3,663,798	3,089,996	1.62	79.6
2026	projection	348,178,045	346.9–349.6 million	3,673,260	3,136,202	1.63	79.8
2027	projection	349,892,943	347.7–352.2 million	3,677,407	3,181,275	1.62	79.9
2028	projection	351,563,767	348.4–354.8 million	3,690,023	3,230,735	1.63	80.1
2029	projection	353,244,404	348.9–357.5 million	3,705,142	3,279,256	1.63	80.2
2030	projection	354,856,131	349.6–360.3 million	3,722,355	3,329,481	1.63	80.4
2031	projection	356,443,631	350.0–363.1 million	3,738,465	3,384,177	1.63	80.5
2032	projection	358,001,800	350.4–365.8 million	3,759,208	3,437,542	1.63	80.7
2033	projection	359,538,148	350.7–368.5 million	3,785,081	3,492,313	1.63	80.8
2034	projection	361,049,869	351.0–371.3 million	3,804,144	3,548,061	1.63	81.0
2035	projection	362,553,753	350.9–374.3 million	3,832,236	3,604,213	1.63	81.1
2036	projection	364,015,679	350.9–377.2 million	3,861,265	3,659,977	1.64	81.3
2037	projection	365,447,640	350.7–380.2 million	3,881,174	3,715,058	1.63	81.4
2038	projection	366,857,100	350.6–383.3 million	3,902,092	3,769,157	1.64	81.5
2039	projection	368,245,811	350.4–386.3 million	3,921,086	3,824,490	1.64	81.7
2040	projection	369,567,825	350.0–389.5 million	3,928,654	3,874,500	1.64	81.8
2041	projection	370,850,807	349.7–392.3 million	3,931,954	3,924,519	1.64	82.0
2042	projection	372,088,149	349.1–395.2 million	3,925,344	3,969,395	1.64	82.1
2043	projection	373,321,395	348.4–398.2 million	3,918,986	4,010,720	1.64	82.3
2044	projection	374,479,960	347.0–401.2 million	3,904,969	4,048,623	1.64	82.4
2045	projection	375,578,531	346.7–404.4 million	3,896,504	4,080,395	1.64	82.5
2046	projection	376,634,414	346.1–407.2 million	3,871,599	4,108,599	1.64	82.7
2047	projection	377,629,041	345.2–409.7 million	3,846,970	4,135,524	1.64	82.8
2048	projection	378,606,493	343.7–412.5 million	3,826,069	4,161,540	1.64	83.0
2049	projection	379,520,996	343.1–415.6 million	3,802,810	4,178,030	1.64	83.1
2050	projection	380,412,816	342.5–418.7 million	3,786,868	4,196,014	1.64	83.2
2051	projection	381,281,003	341.7–421.3 million	3,770,805	4,206,933	1.64	83.4
2052	projection	382,135,790	340.5–423.9 million	3,755,160	4,211,370	1.64	83.5
2053	projection	382,951,717	339.7–426.7 million	3,745,646	4,214,815	1.64	83.7
2054	projection	383,766,947	338.3–429.5 million	3,736,401	4,214,715	1.64	83.8
2055	projection	384,524,893	336.4–432.5 million	3,730,971	4,208,774	1.64	83.9
2056	projection	385,263,702	335.5–434.8 million	3,729,723	4,203,404	1.64	84.1
2057	projection	386,020,980	333.6–438.1 million	3,728,280	4,198,583	1.64	84.2
2058	projection	386,829,472	333.2–441.6 million	3,729,038	4,190,264	1.64	84.3
2059	projection	387,677,939	331.7–444.7 million	3,736,435	4,183,835	1.64	84.4
2060	projection	388,508,176	329.6–447.2 million	3,746,407	4,170,094	1.64	84.6
2061	projection	389,328,613	327.4–449.9 million	3,755,568	4,162,859	1.64	84.7
2062	projection	390,201,974	325.7–453.5 million	3,764,810	4,157,411	1.64	84.8
2063	projection	391,093,069	324.7–455.9 million	3,777,915	4,153,984	1.64	85.0
2064	projection	391,998,168	324.6–460.8 million	3,791,944	4,153,087	1.64	85.1
2065	projection	392,890,288	323.0–463.9 million	3,806,221	4,155,269	1.64	85.2
2066	projection	393,814,930	320.7–466.7 million	3,821,110	4,160,782	1.64	85.3
2067	projection	394,773,769	319.4–471.0 million	3,836,550	4,169,917	1.64	85.5
2068	projection	395,760,683	318.2–476.1 million	3,850,245	4,186,708	1.64	85.6
2069	projection	396,735,888	315.9–479.1 million	3,862,197	4,198,990	1.64	85.7
2070	projection	397,738,922	314.1–483.3 million	3,876,044	4,216,238	1.64	85.8
2071	projection	398,697,254	311.8–487.2 million	3,878,228	4,238,413	1.64	85.9
2072	projection	399,688,585	310.5–490.8 million	3,884,880	4,262,220	1.64	86.0
2073	projection	400,615,022	308.3–495.0 million	3,882,351	4,284,167	1.64	86.2
2074	projection	401,546,043	306.1–499.1 million	3,885,698	4,304,457	1.64	86.3
2075	projection	402,440,653	304.6–503.9 million	3,886,590	4,327,281	1.64	86.4
2076	projection	403,379,673	302.7–507.1 million	3,886,297	4,351,564	1.64	86.5
2077	projection	404,262,179	300.9–511.9 million	3,886,234	4,371,553	1.64	86.6
2078	projection	405,104,745	299.1–517.9 million	3,884,169	4,385,207	1.65	86.7
2079	projection	405,932,659	297.6–522.7 million	3,876,733	4,403,681	1.65	86.8
2080	projection	406,707,200	295.9–528.1 million	3,868,056	4,415,195	1.65	87.0
2081	projection	407,452,432	294.3–532.7 million	3,859,134	4,425,866	1.65	87.1
2082	projection	408,280,137	292.6–536.2 million	3,853,723	4,432,483	1.65	87.2
2083	projection	409,031,584	291.1–539.5 million	3,848,349	4,440,723	1.65	87.3
2084	projection	409,771,734	290.1–545.1 million	3,843,603	4,439,912	1.65	87.4
2085	projection	410,497,599	287.6–549.4 million	3,842,058	4,437,548	1.65	87.5
2086	projection	411,162,370	284.8–554.7 million	3,840,533	4,436,191	1.65	87.6
2087	projection	411,877,803	283.2–561.1 million	3,838,925	4,434,413	1.65	87.8
2088	projection	412,595,750	280.9–566.3 million	3,839,681	4,430,935	1.65	87.9
2089	projection	413,361,810	279.0–570.6 million	3,846,809	4,431,289	1.65	88.0
2090	projection	414,099,672	278.3–575.5 million	3,852,724	4,431,151	1.65	88.1
2091	projection	414,815,608	277.3–579.9 million	3,852,689	4,436,767	1.65	88.2
2092	projection	415,557,170	274.5–582.5 million	3,861,609	4,443,683	1.65	88.3
2093	projection	416,300,830	272.8–587.7 million	3,866,975	4,454,752	1.65	88.4
2094	projection	417,023,423	270.7–592.8 million	3,873,332	4,470,120	1.65	88.5
2095	projection	417,759,808	268.2–598.1 million	3,884,252	4,489,228	1.65	88.6
2096	projection	418,471,247	266.0–603.2 million	3,891,035	4,513,265	1.65	88.7
2097	projection	419,128,948	263.3–607.1 million	3,902,765	4,535,971	1.65	88.8
2098	projection	419,793,086	261.1–612.5 million	3,905,290	4,558,807	1.65	89.0
2099	projection	420,398,554	259.2–619.2 million	3,913,639	4,582,588	1.65	89.1
2100	projection	421,007,222	256.7–623.3 million	3,914,151	4,597,258	1.65	89.2

Show the numbers: United States, mid-2026, by single year of age

United States: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	1,886,640	1,796,630
1	1,895,220	1,803,340
2	1,901,800	1,809,580
3	1,929,070	1,836,840
4	1,935,800	1,844,150
5	1,908,210	1,818,460
6	1,934,690	1,844,620
7	1,987,130	1,894,940
8	2,027,530	1,929,990
9	2,079,990	1,976,090
10	2,125,830	2,016,430
11	2,151,570	2,037,220
12	2,155,320	2,037,710
13	2,160,600	2,041,190
14	2,180,570	2,057,570
15	2,209,470	2,081,460
16	2,264,720	2,133,810
17	2,339,550	2,205,650
18	2,409,290	2,272,700
19	2,447,980	2,308,020
20	2,442,550	2,300,700
21	2,431,380	2,289,690
22	2,431,620	2,288,380
23	2,415,800	2,270,250
24	2,400,750	2,253,920
25	2,405,640	2,254,350
26	2,384,340	2,227,660
27	2,349,120	2,191,380
28	2,331,470	2,173,210
29	2,330,310	2,170,560
30	2,350,490	2,187,770
31	2,383,530	2,218,630
32	2,428,660	2,261,900
33	2,479,760	2,310,880
34	2,527,840	2,362,470
35	2,570,900	2,406,060
36	2,564,180	2,399,830
37	2,515,820	2,355,930
38	2,475,860	2,318,970
39	2,443,660	2,290,780
40	2,433,450	2,283,920
41	2,416,420	2,272,330
42	2,391,670	2,253,380
43	2,387,850	2,255,630
44	2,374,690	2,249,010
45	2,349,510	2,229,200
46	2,310,280	2,198,010
47	2,243,220	2,138,630
48	2,191,410	2,092,760
49	2,132,700	2,040,370
50	2,073,470	1,986,450
51	2,052,070	1,969,570
52	2,029,600	1,954,220
53	2,028,000	1,961,070
54	2,097,230	2,036,150
55	2,178,030	2,119,720
56	2,156,230	2,104,910
57	2,075,880	2,034,760
58	2,034,580	2,004,420
59	2,035,810	2,019,370
60	2,063,140	2,058,070
61	2,109,760	2,119,610
62	2,133,970	2,156,210
63	2,123,420	2,157,800
64	2,118,160	2,168,340
65	2,094,080	2,157,300
66	2,046,350	2,121,080
67	1,994,290	2,092,470
68	1,928,900	2,054,980
69	1,846,440	2,002,210
70	1,764,960	1,948,160
71	1,702,580	1,881,890
72	1,623,750	1,802,590
73	1,522,510	1,719,270
74	1,426,500	1,629,520
75	1,339,460	1,543,690
76	1,266,780	1,473,940
77	1,204,330	1,418,710
78	1,156,290	1,378,010
79	1,075,330	1,294,050
80	903,589	1,104,500
81	777,053	963,526
82	729,229	926,104
83	662,411	870,324
84	563,682	767,501
85	462,450	663,060
86	392,138	588,676
87	346,559	524,251
88	302,835	460,894
89	253,690	401,093
90	208,634	349,099
91	169,181	299,332
92	133,286	247,464
93	103,495	202,309
94	79,542	163,870
95	60,144	128,378
96	43,573	97,464
97	29,687	71,692
98	19,707	51,311
99	12,512	35,035
100+	18,022	59,024

USA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

United States, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

USA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in United States

In the United States the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 223,169,000 of them.

100 aged 15–64

27 children

27 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 20 years: 1982–1987 and 2001–2014.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

USA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in United States, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the United States gains 1,076,562 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 195,960 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 20,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 1,889,129 (2016), and a loss of 65,491 (1954).

In 2024, 52,375,047 people living in the United States had been born in another country, 15 of every 100 people there, against 9 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

USA · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in United States

Of every 100 babies born in the United States in 2023, 4 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 21 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 12 under 20 and 10 aged 35 or older.

1950
12 · 78 · 10

2023
4 · 75 · 21

2050 · projected
1 · 74 · 25

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 3,657,476
Average age when women have a baby: 29.9 years; 26.6 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 13; 82 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the United States by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	6,324	16,626	10,688	1,885	458	459
15–19	443,540	599,868	461,919	143,762	56,784	58,768
20–24	1,180,869	1,132,288	1,001,524	636,573	389,128	415,047
25–29	1,060,109	1,013,653	1,051,835	999,646	1,067,870	1,145,931
30–34	623,656	396,321	899,076	1,120,752	1,330,936	1,377,087
35–39	299,807	120,948	438,156	609,404	747,337	734,443
40–44	78,928	27,369	89,104	135,451	180,117	168,363
45–49	4,580	2,218	4,276	9,850	14,061	13,861
50–54	113	0	72	153	177	192
All babies	3,697,926	3,309,291	3,956,650	3,657,476	3,786,868	3,914,151

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

USA · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in United States

In the United States, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 63.9 (95% range 63.1–64.7), out of 76.4 in all. The years in less than full health come to 12.5, above the world's 9.5.

Women

65.1 in full health, 14.0 not: 79.1 years

Men

62.8 in full health, 10.9 not: 73.7 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.1 healthy years of 79.1. Men: 62.8 of 73.7. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.0.

USA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in United States

At the end of 2025, the United States was hosting 4,176,592 people who had crossed a border into it, about 12 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad4,176,592
United States nationals abroad7,446

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 100,000 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from the United States living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 629,358 people asked for asylum in the United States for the first time (and 282,594 more claims were counted as cases, a family as one); 2,904 people from the United States asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from the United States whose claims were decided that year, 8 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

USA · of every 100 people

How people live in United States

Of every 100 people in the United States in 2025, 35 lived in a city, 39 in a town or suburb and 26 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 5.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

USA · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in United States went in school

Of every 100 adults in the United States in 2020, 1 never went to school and 89 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 never went to school 1 some primary 3 finished primary 6 finished lower secondary 50 finished upper secondary 39 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2065; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2070.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

USA · cities · 2025

Cities in United States

The United States had 348 cities in 2025, home to 121.4 million people. The largest, New York City, holds 4 of every 100 people in the United States.

New York City13,920,148
Los Angeles12,740,420
Houston3,955,046
Chicago3,683,385
Washington, D.C.3,270,018
San Francisco3,163,486
Miami2,912,486
Denver2,265,994
Philadelphia2,232,420
Las Vegas2,183,655

All 83 cities in the United States that reach 300,000 people

New York City 13,920,148
Los Angeles 12,740,420
Houston 3,955,046
Chicago 3,683,385
Washington, D.C. 3,270,018
San Francisco 3,163,486
Miami 2,912,486
Denver 2,265,994
Philadelphia 2,232,420
Las Vegas 2,183,655
Phoenix 1,972,021
San Diego 1,915,114
San Antonio 1,686,163
Boston 1,639,797
Dallas 1,521,118
Sacramento 1,514,661
Austin 1,513,032
Oakland 1,503,319
Seattle 1,403,495
Mesa 1,398,369
Portland 1,397,788
Fort Lauderdale 1,368,027
Baltimore 1,145,219
Minneapolis [Saint Paul] 1,107,243
Saint Petersburg 877,183
Detroit 809,894
Columbus 731,335
Milwaukee 701,928
Fresno 685,330
St. Louis 663,392
West Palm Beach 617,035
El Paso 605,731
Norfolk 567,473
Tampa 551,988
Salt Lake City 542,449
Honolulu 540,683
Bakersfield 503,676
Provo 488,429
Orlando 477,249
West Valley City 463,325
Atlanta 458,225
Sterling Heights 435,980
Providence 429,694
Tucson 422,107
Escondido 415,167
Albuquerque 410,810
North Richland Hills 404,680
Stockton 398,470
Colorado Springs 394,888
Pittsburgh 385,498
Plano 367,716
Riverside 367,336
Mission Viejo 365,221
Memphis 356,215
McAllen 355,331
Oak Ridge 353,212
Kansas City 344,125
Buffalo 322,892
Parma 322,420
Arlington 311,130
Modesto 310,818
Hammond 301,148
Arlington Heights 298,081
Louisville 291,103
Euclid 290,669
Tacoma 289,128
Poway 283,508
Copperfield 279,805
Gaithersburg 274,439
Bellevue 267,696
The Woodlands 260,732
Hazel Dell 259,716
New Orleans 258,413
Murrieta 257,413
Laredo 249,861
Cutler Bay 249,822
Edgecliff Village 249,260
Cinco Ranch 244,538
Corpus Christi 239,855
Cockrell Hill 230,727
Charlotte 221,000
Lincoln Park 200,040
Dearborn Heights 177,423

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for the United States are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.