The population of the USA today isabout 310 million people. This is the third largest in the world, after China and India (1.33 billion and 1.18 billion people, respectively). And the history of the formation of the composition of the population of this country can be attributed to the rather sad.
The fact is that during the development of these landsEuropean race killed a large number of indigenous people - Indians. It is assumed that in the Americas as a result of hostilities, disease and physical extermination could kill many millions of representatives of different Indian peoples.
Experts believe that before the invasion of Europeansin America, the number of Indians could reach 20 or even 40 million. About 15 million indigenous people were killed in the Spanish possessions because they refused to work on the plantations. In the course of the development of farms, new lands were required for displaced people, as a result of which the tribes of Indian Indians were actively oppressed and relocated. The size of the Indian population on the continent was restored to that which was in pre-Columbian America only in the 1950s. Nowadays, about 200,000 Indians live in the United States, mainly on reservations. It is interesting to note that the population that once owned all of America today is not particularly allowed to political and social activities in this country.
In the 16th century, the population of the United States was activelyit was replenished with blacks — slaves who were imported in large quantities into this country and adjacent territories for more than three centuries. Today they make up about 15% of the population and include African Americans and mulattoes.
After the Civil War, the results of whichslavery was abolished, the population of the United States began to increase due to immigrants from Asia and Europe. However, this process slowed down in the 20th century due to several world wars. It is assumed that today the majority of the population are those whose ancestors came from the Old World, Australia, Canada, in the second place are representatives of the African American direction, in the third are Asians, in the fourth - the Indians, in the fifth - the peoples of the islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The ranking is completed by other peoples and races, whose share in the total population is about 1.7 percent.
Note that the population in the USA isapproximate value, as well as its composition, because, for example, in this state there are about 5 million unemployed who move around the country and are not always counted. In addition, one cannot say for sure that the “white population” is 80%, as indicated in official statistics, since In the United States, there is active, including illegal, migration from Latin America and other regions.
The US population exceedsa third of a billion, as part of its population, have an impressive proportion of people who were not born on the territory of this state. According to the mid-10s of the 21st century (2005), their share is about 10 percent, of which eleven million people were born in Mexico, about five million were born in Europe, and about 1.5 million were born in India or China. The population of the United States is increasing by approximately 0.9% per year, mainly at the expense of representatives of Latin American and African American nations.
