1990 United States Census

determined the resident population of the United States on 1 April 1990

The Twenty-first United States Census was done by the Census Bureau. The population of the United Stateswas 248,709,873. This was an increase of 9.8 percent from the 1980 Census.[1]

Twenty-first Census
of the United States
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General Information
Date TakenApril 1, 1990
Total U.S. Population248,709,873
Percent ChangeIncrease 9.8%
Most Populous StateCalifornia
29,760,000
Least Populous StateWyoming
454,000
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About 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 1990 census. It had over 100 questions. It was the first census to have "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" as a racial group separate from Asians.

References change

  1. "Population and Area (Historical Censuses)" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 June 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.