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Posted on December 12, 2025 by Dmitri O'Bannon

What was America’s population growth over the five decades leading to 2020?

The decade-by-decade population growth of the United States between 1970 and 2020 is as follows:

  1. 1970 – 203,392,031
  2. 1980 – 226,545,805 (11.4%)
  3. 1990 – 248,709,873 (9.8%)
  4. 2020 – 281,421,906 (13.2%)
  5. 2010 – 308,745,538 (9.7%)
  6. 2020 – 331,449,281 (7.4%)

via Wikipedia

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