List of U.S. states by population
This is a list of
states of the United States by population (with inhabited non-state jurisdictions included for comparison) as of
July 1,
2006, according to the 2005 estimates of the
United States Census Bureau. The total
population of the
United States was 281,421,906 at the
2000 Census, and is estimated to be 303,109,527 in October 2007. As of
July 1,
2006, the estimated population of the 50 states, the
District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the other
insular areas of the United States was 303,755,930. Notably, the top nine states in population contain half of the total population. The twenty-five lowest-population states contain less than one-sixth of the total population.
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