United States population growth from 1790 to 2020 visualized with 3200 wooden blocks. Using census data, we can in this visualization see the population growth and geographical shift to the west as the vast nation grow. Every block represents 100 000 inhabitants.

Today, California, Texas, Florida and New York are the most populous states, but that has not always been the case. Through urbanization and suburbanization the demographical as well as political landscape of the United States changed.

Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2020.
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Population statistics from extrapolated data based on the United States Census data 1920-2020 from [ Ссылка ]. Census data statistics from 1790-1920 from each census Wikipedia page respectively.

Population Pyramid data from [ Ссылка ].

Music från Epidemic Sounds:
"Forever Shifting" by They Dream By Day downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. [ Ссылка ]

"That Old Poetry" by River Foxcroft downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. [ Ссылка ]

All images downloaded from Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons.

Vectorized map:
Map of United States of America with States - Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com

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