Index of Slides : Text Mostly Version
- America at the Close of the 20th Century
- The 24 million people added to the United States between 1990 and 1999 is greater than the 1999 population of Texas and Oklahoma combined.
- Region-to-region migration favors the South and West over the Northeast and Midwest
- Not all segments of the population grow at the same rate.
- In 1999, about 10 percent of the people living in the United States (26 million) were foreign born.
- Between 1990 and 1999, the population aged 45 to 54 swelled 43 percent and those aged 85 and older grew 38 percent.
- Of the 112 million year-round housing units in the United States in 1999, 52 million were in the suburbs.
- Families still dominate American households, but less so than they did 20 years ago.
- The number of elementary and high school students in 1998 fell just short of the all-time high of 49 million reached in 1970.
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- In 1997, almost half of all adults used computers, but three out of four children did.
- Family and nonfamily households had higher median incomes in 1999 than in 1998.
- Between 1998 and 1999, the percent of people in poverty declined for every major racial and ethnic group.
- The percentage of people without health insurance was greater in 1999 than in 1987.
- Almost one in five adults had some type of disability in 1997 and the likelihood of having a disability increased with age.
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