EMBARGOED UNTIL: AUG. 1, 1995 (TUESDAY) Public Information Office CB95-137 301-457-2794 301-457-4067 (TDD) Population Statistical Information Staff 301-457-2422 POPULATION PROFILE OF THE NATION ISSUED BY CENSUS BUREAU EMBARGOED UNTIL: AUG. 1, 1995 (TUESDAY) - The population of the United States is projected to increase to 392 million by 2050--about 50 percent larger than today's population. As of July 1, 1994, Texas, with a population of 18.4 million, became the second most populous state after California; and as of Jan. 1, 1995, the estimated population of the United States stood at 261,638,000. These and other statistical facts are contained in a new publication titled, "Population Profile of the United States: 1995" (P23-189), a biennial compendium of facts about our nation collected by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. Some facts from the compendium, which is illustrated with graphs, charts, and maps, are: - The number of births in 1994 fell below the 4 million mark for the first time since 1988. - California's Hispanic-origin population is expected to double between 1993 and 2020. - The average American makes 11.7 moves in a lifetime (based on current age structure and average rates of moving by age). - Thirty-four percent of the nation's 3- and 4-year-olds were enrolled in nursery schools in October 1993. - Among persons 25 years old and over, 80 percent had completed high school and 22 percent had completed four or more years of college in 1993. - Post-secondary school students paid about $2,650 during the 1990-91 school year for their tuition and fees, books and educational supplies, and room and board. - The share of households occupied by families fell from 81 percent in 1970 to 71 percent in 1990, and remained at that level in 1994. - The estimated median age at first marriage in 1994 was 24.5 years for women and 26.7 years for men. - More than one-half (53 percent) of women who gave birth between July 1993 and June 1994 were in the labor force. - The aggregate amount of child support received in 1991 was $11.9 billion, 67 percent of the total $17.7 billion that custodial parents were due. - Real median household income fell 7 percent from $33,685 in 1989 to $31,241 in 1993. The publication has sections on national and state population trends and projections; geographical mobility; school enrollment, educational attainment, and post-secondary school financing; households and families; marital status and living arrangements; fertility, child care arrangements, and child support; disability, program participation, and health insurance; labor force and occupation; money income and poverty; race and Hispanic-origin populations; and the elderly population. Since data in the publication are from surveys, they are subject to sampling variability and other sources of error.-X-Editor's note: EMBARGOED UNTIL: AUG. 1, 1995 (TUESDAY) - media representatives may obtain copies of the publication from the bureau's Public Information Office by telephone: 301-457-2794; fax: 301-457-3670; or e-mail: pio@census.gov. Non-media orders should be directed to the bureau's Customer Services Office on 301-763-INFO(4636); fax: 301-457-3842.
