United States Population of the 50 States (1630 - 2021)
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- The population of the united states with individual states from 1630 to 2021. The population of the 50 states in the united states stands at 334 Million in 2021.
Currently, the most populous state in the united states is California with a population of 39 Million.
The second most populous state in the United state is Texas with a population of 29.7 million people.
The third and fourth are Florida and New York with a population of 21.9 million and 19.3 Million respectively.
Source: World Population Review
Most populated states overtime:
Virginia: 1630-1713
Massachusetts: 1713-1730
Virginia: 1730-1813
New York: 1813-1962
California: 1962-present
The fact that NY was most populated for 150 years is incredible
Me as a Pennsylvanian thinking we would be most populated in 1813 just to see New York out of nowhere
Could Texas be the most populated in future?
@@chenyaolu5915 maybe
We need to depopulate by 7 billion people .
4:32
Pennsylvania “Ah yes, my time has finally come”
New York “not so fast”
California: Hold my beer.
pennsylvania only grew as overflow from new york anways.
@@BakingBadOBX that doesn't sound right for the 1600s. But it does sound right for 2023
@@nuckels188 can confirm. I live in PA and we've been getting invaded by NY and NJ since the pandemic
Meanwhile ohio: GAS GAS GAS
It's practically mind-boggling to think that populations used to be so low.
Very good point
They basically walked their way into civilization, steam engine, horseback riding, train, automotive and planes population grew so did transportation. It's not like their walking around in the stone age lol 🤣.
That's what happened back then because of no vaccines.
Your mind is practically boggled? How so?
Around 2.5M in 1776.
I love how as soon as we got widespread air conditioning Florida became extremely popular
New York has 36M people
No it does not
@@Roblox_mrtomasgoogle exists
@@valyarbro3572 you have to add all the (dead) Biden voters. 36 Million it is!
@@Roblox_mrtomasit’s does not
One small issue, Maine did not become a state until 1820, up until then their territory was considered to be a part of Massachusetts. It was made an independent state from them in order to maintain the balance between North and South in the Senate. At the time, Missouri had applied to be a state and would have given the South a majority in the Senate, so as part of the 1820 Missouri Compromise they made Maine a state in cohesion with them.
It's a bizarre 'map', they do something similar for WV. If they truly went with the premise that the 'state' entered the scene once populated by non-native people, you'd have a lot longer runtime as the 1500s would be added and it would only be New Mexico vs. Florida in probably the 3-digit number range, but you'd get North Carolina at the end of the 1500s for a few seconds and then it would drop off the map for about 100 years
Same with Tennessee appearing before USA's independence.
I believe they were doing it based off of modern-day states. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vermont were noticeably added before the revolution as well.
Yeah, so how could they count population in Maine and WV when they were part of another state?
@@shreloddergan5857 Yeah well technically none of them should've been added till the 1770s if we're giong by statehood. But he wasn't
Arizona just pops up in the top 20 in 1999 .. and ends up the 14th most populated state. Crazy fast growth .. in a short period of time.
Air Conditioners
Courtesy of diverted Colorado River water. Same with California and Nevada.
Yup. It started becoming popular after WW2.
According to this graph from 1999-2021, CA added roughly 6.17M people, TX added 9.37M . AZ added 2.6M
crazy fast growth, look at texas after the mexican american war and then california after ww2
Correction: The population of Maryland didn't shrink between 1680 -1700 and Connecticut in 1700-1720. Sorry for the data entry mishap. Kindly ignore the two between the respective years.
Ah - I was going to query the reasons for those rapid population deflations.
Bruh someone killed everyone in Maryland
Heck it had west Virginia on the list in 1837 it wasn't a state till after 1865
Why does WV show up in 1790, 73 years before it (illegally) became a State?
@@rms3 Why was WV’s entrance illegal? You’re giving off some awfully neo-confederate energy.
As a history nerd, it is interesting to watch the shift in populations to various states depending on what was happening domestic and globally.
and popcorn
Wish it was annotated with those events, some are I guess, most of the annotations are just historical events.
yes, that is the purpose of this video
As a history nerd you should realize that in 1620 there was no United States AND the native populations of what is now the Great Plains states was far greater than what was then Virginia. So is it "United States Population by EUROPEANS". That does not make sense either because the descendants of Spanish Conquistadors occupied what is now the southwestern United States in great numbers through much of this time AND after 1783 those who were Europeans were all of a sudden now citizens of the US (so the criteria changed???) ALSO from 1620 to 1863 black slaves outnumbered whites by as many as 4 to 1 in some parts of the country. Was this accounted for in the totals????
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The growth of California is incredible. 38 million people live there , that’s more than all of Canada which has 36 million people.
Population is decreasing as of late, and Texas is continuing to explode
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@@Xizfunot by that much
Canada population now 39.5 million 😂😂😂
@@ucchau173 canadas population is 38.25 million, Californias is 39.24 million
The Treaty of Paris may have established American independence in 1783 to anyone not residing in the USA, but here, that is merely regarded as the year the United Kingdom formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. Americans consider July 4th 1776 to be the day the US became independent as this was the day we signed our Declaration of Independence.
USA was USA prior before European immigrants. Deport white people. Native Americans are true citizens of USA.
Bruh I’m cheering for ohio
okay I'm from the US and was wondering about this
So Indigenous Native Americans never existed? Why do people ignore the truth?
Well this is awkward as it was actually signed in August go ahead go google it. It was voted on and ratified on July 4th but not actually signed until August 2nd 1776. This has been proven as many of the signers were not even there on July 4th and indeed some had not even been elected yet. It's ok though this isn't the only US oddity i.e Ohio is both the 17th and 48th state due to congress being unable to decide what you had to do to become a state. I.e in 1803 Thomas Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's borders and constitution and Congress did indeed accept Ohio's delegates then but in 1953 they discovered Congress never actually passed a formal resolution admitting Ohio to the union. Not that it was technically needed but still and amusing oversight. Ohio was then retroactively admitted to the Union dating back to 1803 after a formal application was delivered on horseback. So yes it's the 17th state but if you go by when everything was cleared up it would indeed be the 48th state as well lol.
It looks like Chicago and Illinois enjoyed a rapid boom, before tapering off and declining slightly. I always think of Illinois as a more populous state than Pennsylvania. I did not realize that IL and PA have been pretty much neck and neck in recent years.
I also find NJ to be interesting.
I assumed that NJ would have moved higher in the ranks earlier, but it seems that NJ population boom is more so recent. Maybe it was the automobile that ignited the suburbanization boom in NJ.
I had assumed that cities like Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, etc, grew simultaneously alongside New York City.
Ohio benefits from Chicago the same way New Jersey benefits from New York and Philadelphia...
People are ditching the liberal hellscape formerly known as Chicago. Can't blame them, civil people with options don't want to be robbed and murdered then have the mayor let the criminal out in the name of racial soludarity.
@@Soulbotagem-BR I disagree. NJ really has nothing they have that is "theirs". NJ is a commuter state. Everyone works in Philly or NY for the most part. Most of their money as a state is also made by people who come for the summer from PA/NY. NJ is also a very divided state in terms of looks and Geographic's. South Jersey might as well be another state compared to the rest. Ohio and Illinois are way farther apart. No one is commuting between the two states. Chicago is the major city in the state. The rest of the state is open. Ohio really only has 3 major cities. A lot of small or medium sized cities. Ohio is still considered a mid west state but it's almost not. Illinois for sure is.
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@@Soulbotagem-BR I guess not since it didn’t make sense.
I think history was my worst subject in school. I was more of a space science geek. Looking at this was very interesting and seeing the changes in state populations based on events really peaked my interest! Great job to the folks who put this together! Good to see educational things on TH-cam!
I'm into both
*piqued your interest. (English major)
The worst thing about science geeks is if you don't like science they judge you I don't like science at all I say it loud and proud, geography and history are my thing and always will be.
it was done by AI that ignored indigenous populations
Mine is math
as a Pennsylvanian myself I'm actually kinda proud that we were the 2nd most populated colony/State for most of the time from 1768 to 1949, nearly 200 years with the 2nd highest number of people in the country!
as another Pennsylvanian, I too am proud.
I loved watching Pennsylvania make that run towards the top.
@@JohnnyB_1123 yeah it felt so good
As a New Jersian, learn to drive!!! :)
@@lodbldbol as a Pennsylvanian, you New Jersians need not drive 80 in a 50 and complain about speeds…
my grandfather born in 1896 in Iowa. He was born right before the Spanish American war. He said the immigrated to Minnesota. At that time people took the immigration train. He lived to see the invention of the lightbulb, the radio, the automobile, and then he said " I saw a man WALK on the moon!" His life spanned the horse to computers and died at 100 years old in 1996. What growth in his lifetime he knew every highway from MN to the Texas/Mexico border. He lived to see the highway system built and so much more. So glad my mumm recorded him on a cassett in the 70's his voice telling all he lived and saw. This video is amazing, Thank you. GJ from Minnesota.[ side note. VFW= veterans of foreign wars and started when Spanish American veterans served also in WWI. My grandfather was a charter member and served both WWI & WWII]
why is he so old?
@@greenwave819likely primarily genetics
That's really awesome. And just think if there was that much innovation and change in 100 years, what the next 100 years will be like 😮
I love how Florida grew to the top 5 in like 5 minutes
Should have put on the timeline when mass production of air conditioners started. Probably when Florida took off.
Basically once AC got invented lol
When all the older folk started retiring
Air conditioning
Ac
Number of years as the most populated state:
Virginia 164
New York 149
Massachusetts 17
California 61
I thought it would be new york as no 1
West Virginia pops up in 1791, but there was no West Virginia until the Civil War. not officially a state until 1863
Not to mention that Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820 and other anomalies.
Maine was on there before it became a state as well it used to be part of Massachusetts colony
They are just talking about the region that we now refer by that name. People moved there and lived there BEFORE it was officially named a state (duh?). The US was not elevating empty territories to statehood. My guess is 1791 was the earliest Census data that could be found in that area. Also if you came to YT for a deep and accurate history lesson you are perhaps not such an astute historian as even amateur historians know how to pick a reliable source.
Yeah its obviously what Cody said in the replies. I mean its not when they became states, since the video starts in 1630 and there were NO states till 1776. I mean theres a debate on whether Maine or West Virginia should've been classified as Virginian and Massachusetts colonies at the start of the video, but I actually kinda like how they did it. I was looking exactly for this tbh
Massachusetts: I used to rule the world in the early days
My home state of NY saw huge growth as it expanded westward, then the Erie canal in 1825 kept it out front for 150 years. I think population growth basically filled the state to it's healthy maximum at around 19million, and is now stable in it's land use. Now it's just a matter of changing industries from Manufacturing to high tech. I see it staying about 20 million for the foreseeable future, and I think that is a good thing. Population Growth isn't always best.
I'm a NY transplant from NC ....I've lived here all my adult life and love it .I was was in NYC for 30 years and in the Catskills now for 14 years....I love it . I don't see loosing population as all a bad thing
@Tommy Haynes actually, since 2000, NY and NC have both had about 4.3% growth. I am from the Catskills
New York's population will continue to crater as people flee the leftwing lunatics running the state government. By the end of the decade, New York could easily lose close to 1 million residents
Am pretty sure immigration was more impactful than the canal
@@krash66 ok so what can your cat do
About 100 years ago, the first industrial sized air conditioner was put in a movie theater. At the same time, Florida’s population was less than 1 million.
Just imagine how different state populations would be without air conditioning, especially in the southern states.
I remember summer in 1950s--Hot, sweaty and asap run to the pool.
@@lynnmeyers10 Really? Was AC just not widely available then, or just by the end of the decade/1960s?
@@Awakeningspirit20 you had to be able to afford it. It was available in 1960s, not necessarily affordable. You used electric table fans,Central air in businesses in mid 1960s. It varied. I grew up in a small town. We saw a/c later and even in military it varied. I lived in Philadelphia later, and we had window a/c in 1965. By the end of decade there may have been central air in big businesses and new homes, but older homes and small businesses a/c was not built in. You would have had to use. Window. a/c. Maybe some renovated and had central air, but most had window units. I don't remember many built in central air units.. I'm not sure about large retail businesses.
I remember in the mid 60's the first house on our street to have central air-conditioning. We just knew that they had to be rich!
Connecticut’s drop off in the 1800s is WILD especially when you see them outpacing New York
marylands drop off in the late 1600's was craziest to me. I had to research that one.
Should Maine's population be included in Massachusetts until 1820, when Maine became a state?
I thought the same thing about seeing West Virginia so early
This is wrong. The whole video is.
no because we are going by todays borders
@@Tyler_Hutchinson does it say that anywhere?
@Cod Bus it can be reasonably assumed.
It's absolutely insane that Massachusetts stayed on this graph the entire time.
I don’t know if you added West Virginia to the Virginian population but if you did then it would not have lost its place till 1816, a few years later. Thanks for the good work though! 🇺🇸
Yeah for some reason the video adds West Virginia as it’s own state in the 1790’s.
California sprinted to #1 at breakneck speeds. Remarkable
There's gold in them hills.
not really
Fun fact: early european settlers typically migrated to areas that reminded them the most of their foreign counterparts. For example, Scots, Irish, and British settled in Appalachia, Germans settled in the midwest, and the Norsk and Swedish settled in the upper midwest. In the early years of European settlement, places like NYC and Boston was an exception to this trend though, and was largely a melting pot of many different cultures.
Yeah it is interesting see the path your ancestors have taken to where you are now my ancestors are no exception to what you said here
True, I live in southwestern Virginia and my ancestors were scotch-Irish and British but my last name derives from German ancestry. We truly are a melting pot.
wow. i knew virginia was the most populated for a while but it never clicked in my brain that it was the most populated state. proud to say my state has been the most populated for longer than any other state ~160 years
find better things to be proud of??
Im from virginia too but if the population was high because of slaves then it’s probably not something to be proud about. But im not sure if this graphic includes slaves as population
@@greenwave819 yes, this^^^
Hurray for a 160 years of slavery.... (SARCASM)
@@Qtopian Still a W in my book💯‼🗣
Erie Canal should be on here - 1825, not only can you see NY zoom ahead, but Ohio and PA too - because the canal effectively connected NE Ohio and NW PA to the coast.
Interesting. Learning history through graphs
That is nuts, from 1880 to about 1960, California just kept increasing in population at breakneck speeds until it surpassed New York and then it just kept going.
I honestly didn’t expect Kentucky to stay up there until the 1950’s. I’m kind of surprised we had a large enough population to stay on the screen that long. I find it interesting how every state that borders Kentucky minus West Virginia is on screen. I also find the dips in population very interesting.
They are adding the employees of KFC
west Virginia killed their population growth by betting everything on coal jobs and when those disappeared everyone moved to different states for jobs and their yearly personal property tax keeps people from wanting to move back. every year you pay a tax on your pets, cars, farm animals and equipment, all kinds of stuff , they've had the same population since the 1940's
they were mistakes in the video
I love Kentucky, I wouldn't be surprised to see you boom again in the future as the south is growing and Kentucky has some lovely land
I'm in Florida, it's getting crazy overdeveloped here
It's better to be overdeveloped than underdeveloped. 😏👌
@@stanleysmith7551 eeeeehhhh not necessarily, overdevelopment without proper infrastructure leads to major issues. Underdevelopment with proper infrastructure means you just have less local opportunities but living costs are significantly lower. This over time leads to development because of low land prices. Proper scaling is what you really want.
all new york is moving to Florida and all California moving to texas
Development was the biggest crime on earth. How many species have been driven extinct by development?
@@stanleysmith7551No it’s not, when you have over development you have cookie-cutter houses that won’t last ten years three feet apart from each other and in any newer neighborhood in Florida right now is like that I would rather be surrounded by about an acre of woods in a town that has nothing but a dollar general than in a neighborhood where your neighbor can see you taking a shit because your houses are that close
Love seeing that Missouri is so high on the list at one point. I really wish st.Louis was able to match Chicagos industrial growth. But it didn’t happen.
They sure love their violent crime though.
Indiana was doing pretty good, reaching in the top 5 must’ve been a good time.
That was fascinating! A good refresher for historic context.
My home state of Minnesota fought in the bottom few for so long, until the 80s, then it came back in the 90s and Arizona eventually took it over
Because so many Minnesotans moved there lol
Interesting. I have a direct ancestor who went to Massachusetts in 1670, whose family can be traced to Indiana, then Kentucky briefly, then finally settling where I live now in about 1850. Crazy to think I've so many ancestors who've inhabited the continent for so long.
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So, in conclusion, while they may not be for everyone, we can all recognize that the furry subculture has become a significant part of American society in recent years, and it's not going away anytime soon.
@@randomname7321 Wow, did chatgpt write that?
@bunnyben5607 Yeah, I just thought it would be funny to imagine Ben Shapiro doing a speech about furries in a pink bunny suit
direct? your dad or what?
@@greenwave819 lol
Nice to see Rhode Island didn’t add to many people from 1630 till now.
Being from Indiana, the 1900s were like, “I’m about to destroy this state’s whole career.”
Chicago was transit route and the stock yards. Grandma family settled in Chicago in 1850 with population not being more than small town, they came from Pennsylvania and she never thought moving this was her home.
There's something just so satisfying about these
Was anyone else rooting for Rhode Island against all odds? It had some good early years.
I love how Ohio and Texas were slowly making their way to the top 3
8:42 rip Ohio he is slowly going away from the top 10
@@SuperShroud Currently #7 in population with slow growth. Georgia and North Carolina are rapidly growing so likely will surpass OH soon but I dont see it falling further than #9 in the next few decades.
@@cmbakerxx Hey, resident of Columbus here.
Central Ohio is about to become a huge tech hub as Intel is investing 20 billion dollars into a factory that will be producing semiconductors. Intel is saying they will later invest 80 billion dollars more to build more factories in Ohio.
Semiconductors are a huge deal right now and America hardly makes any, this will be a huge deal for the entire country. More importantly to me, Ohio will be back on top
I understand why there's no data for it, but it's a little weird that Native American populations are not included.
Totally agree. But then it would have to start before 1600. Way before 1600. Like 10,000 years ago - maybe more.
Genocide
@@edwardgreacen1833 Yeah, that would end up being a totally different project to make such video.
@@abracadabra974 most native Americans died from smallpox...
It's only the important people that are counted...LoL
love that colorado slides in there in the last few seconds
PA has been stuck around the same population for some time. People move away from here and don't normally stay in the area as the jobs are not here. Now the cities are doing ok but you go outside of the cities and lots of towns are losing their population as the jobs moved away.
The population ticking down for a few moments during ww2 is sobering.
Ohio was #3 for most of the 19th Century. Amazing.
Yes
1700s… Virginia: “I - am - inevitable.”
1800s… New York: “Our time has come.”
1900s… California: “OUR TIME HAS COME!!!”
TX & FL about to take over top spots
Imagine making an entire country out of thin air. Obviously the Native Americans we're here and their population would also be a very interesting graphic but imagine having to literally build everything from scratch and naming a state and 300 years later its still named that and most of the cities named back then also stuck just mind boggling.
Native Americans played a huge part in the success of our country.
From 1900 to 2000, the population rose by 200 MILLION people. What a wild rise in population
It’s interesting how Virginia almost fell out of the top twenty after being the largest state for an entire century
The amount of History Virginia has for Amaerica. It all seems to start there for US.
It’s amazing how in the decades coming up to the revolution how Virginia’s population skyrocketed and made it by far the most powerful colony… It shows the drastically changing economic factors in the lead up to the revolution. Then in The second decade of the 19th century the surge of population to New York showing the increase strike increase in migration from Europe…. The direct lead up to the civil war. Showing Virginia to still be the most populous and powerful southern state yet 6th over all behind Even Illinois and Indiana in population.
I'm not sure how you decided the metrics. Some places that were not yet states were included before they were states, like Tennessee and Kentucky prior to 1776, while others, like Florida were not. Florida, although initially a Spanish colony, nevertheless had settlers and a large native population, and originally extended all the way to New Orleans. It predates everything else on this chart.
i agree! He didnt inculde Georgia until the 1730 mean while Florida had boat loads of peoples since the 1500s.
I have three ideas about what would be interesting to see in similar videos:
1.) Since the list already starts before the 13 colonies were states, it could also logically include all the other areas that later became states too, even those that were not British. For instance, Florida and Texas were colonized by Spain, so they should have population figures available. There may also be general estimates on Native American populations in other places that were not colonized by Europeans.
2.) It would be interesting to include current and former territories in the list when they would otherwise qualify. For example, the Philippines was a U.S. territory for almost 50 years and had a large population, so although it never became a state it had the population to qualify for the list during the time it was a territory (1898-1946).
3.) It would be interesting to list all current and former states and territories' populations during the time they belonged to the U.S. and not just the top ones. Maybe by using columns they could all fit on the screen at the same time.
Crazy that Wisconsin had more people than California for like 50+ years
Impossible to make but would be interesting to see the native american population by state, and how the decline would compare with the growth of these settlers.
The entire USA had the same population in 1667 as the neighbouring city to mine has right now. Most wouldn't even know about it unless they were from the area. Mind boggling!
The US didnt exist in 1667.
What in the world happened to Maine from 1769-1780ish? They go from 30,000 to around only 2,000.
It is also interesting to see which states never make it to the top 20 shown here: Alaska and Hawaii of course, also Wyoming, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Missisippi, Idaho, Arkansas, Indiana.
Indiana made it to the top ten.
You forgot “Nevada”
Kansas and Mississippi made it to the top 20 as well.
It would be very interesting to to see a time lapse map of deforestation from the 1600’s to the present in North America!
I bet no animals live in that place anymore
@@greenwave819 Californias Redwoods were wiped out by 90% in nearly 40 years it would be insane.
Most areas in New England were wiped out 1700-early 1800's.
De forestation is very very temporary condition. Imagine mowing your lawn and calling it de grassification. NO- it will grow back. Its only a matter of time. A human life span is nothing compared to the life of a forest. We are just a growth resulting from natural selection which will come and go as ALL species must. Dont worry about "human destruction" of the planet as it will only last maybe 25,000 years and we will all be gone. The earth and the plants will be here long after. BUT. in the end- entropy will cause the universe to come apart and none or our little concerns will be left. So enjoy your brief stay, have a drink, sit back, and watch randomness do the inevitable.
All the virgin white pine forests were wiped out in Michigan and Wisconsin by 1900.
There was a slight slow down in growth after 1990, I wonder why🤔
Reaganomics.
Ohio stood their ground for awhile! I didn't realize just how populated it was until I watched this video.
That was a great video, very informative. Great job.
My family arrived in Maine in 1630.
Very proud to have been part of the first 500.
I can’t imagine there ever being that few people in New York
Losing more and more every day
It’s interesting how Virginia is one of the largest states and used to be, yet has no major cities of its own, with bulk of its population being suburbs of DC
Virginia Be Like: GAS GAS GAS but then New York be like: I’m bout to end this man’s whole carrer
The second meme is so often parroted by illiterates who should be banned from the internet for their tasteless humor.
Expert video! Well done!
Lots of commenters cheering for the high population of their respective states and me sitting here glad I still have some room to breath.
Interesting visual. I'm certainly curious about your data. The timeline begins in 1630 so the criteria for inclusion can't be statehood. Wondering where Florida is in the beginning. There were european settlers there since the early 1500's. Also, the numbers apparently don't include indigenous populations.
::Side note: it is estimated that there were nearly 350,000 natives in Florida prior to European settlers. Most of that population was wiped out due to diseases introduced from the explorers.::
I'd also like to know how Black folks and women were counted (I doubt they were at the beginning), and how that influences the numbers. Like, South Carolina had barely any white people for a long time, because it was almost entirely plantations, but they were actually one of the most populous states because there were so many enslaved people. I also am curious why populations don't drop when states split...like, how is it possible that Virginia didn't lose population when West Virginia broke off, or how any of the original colonies didn't lose population when their indefinite western boundaries were turned into separate states. I guess what I'm saying is that this video is interesting, but I have a lot of questions about the data parameters.
As a technical writer, two things stand out to me:
1) There weren't any states prior to 1776. There were only colonies, territories, or Native American controlled lands.
2) The numbers only count non-native Americans. Technically all of the lands had population way before you count them in 1630.
Regardless, a cool animated graphic.
Maine was part of Massachusetts during the 1600 and 1700 I don’t know when it became it’s own state
Compromise of 1820
im from the yorktown area of VA and this ENTIRE area is loaded with american history it makes sense that it dominated in population for a while
Props to my state, Tennessee, for never falling off-screen but never actually getting noticed either
It’s weird to think this list will look completely different in 100 years. Things change so fast
Wait till 50 million illegals immigrants are all here in 3 years.
@@KB-ke3fi everybody's family tree goes back to immigration at some point 🤷♂
think about how it looked 1000 years ago
But not everyone has ties by blood to the American Indians, which keeps them right back here@@DE3P_Beats
So Virginia was the most populous state for 166 years - most of those before the United States officially became its own country with the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War - and New York was at the top for 159 years out of the country's 245 years (as counted since the Declaration of Independence), while California has been the most populous state for 61 years. A couple reasonable inferences: New York City's population was at the center of New York being at the top of the list for so long, and the entertainment industry has been a big part of California's population growth.
Defense industry. WWII was when California’s population exploded.
the Great Depression and the defense industry explosion during World War II were the biggest factors in California's population growth of the 20th century.
As an Arkansan, i’m very disappointed my state didn’t make the list even once.
New york in 1810 after stagnating for a few years:
*im about to do what’s called a pro gamer move*
Would love to see this reframed, using all 50 states in the current boundaries, and including estimates of native populations as well as European immigrant populations. Maybe start around 1490...
What caused Connecticut to expierance such a sharp drop in it's population from 1697 untill 1710 when the population rose again ? Why was the signing of the Decleration of Independance not mentioned in 1776 ? and why was George Washington not mentioned as America's First President ?
the drop is an error according to the creator of the video
It was the due to the deaths from overdosing on Ryinanin, a Colonial horse tranquilizer. It's where the saying, "Get off your high horse" came from
I see they listed West Virginia as a separate state in the 1830s, but West Virginia didn't become its own state until 1863. So what gives?
Maine wasn't around until 1800s either. It was part of Massachusetts.
You are correct, WV + Nevada became states in the Union, we forget how strong Lincoln really was..
I am genuinely shocked Kentucky reached #4 in this! its truly mind boggling
Idk how accurate this is but for New Jersey being top 10 surprises me because of how small it is. It’s definitely dense here
I didn’t realize that Maryland would have such a large population during the colonial years. It is a small state geographically, but then again, Baltimore was one of the largest cities in America until 1950.
I think of states like Massachusetts, Virginia, and Pennsylvania to have been the most dominant colonies. Many of the earliest Presidents and Revolutionaries coming from MA, VA, and PA.
I am also surprised to see New York State with such a relatively small population as a colony. I think of New Amsterdam, New York, Brooklyn, etc, to have always been one of larger cities in America. New York City has now been the largest city, by far, in America through multiple generations.
New York State had been a strong 2 behind California for decades, but has more recently dropped to 4 behind CA, TX, and FL.
The sun belt states are booming and taking the lead from the Rust Belt. I think the Rust Belt and domestic industrial economy peaked in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Pa doesnt have many presidents, but has a lot of bureaucratic power
I believe only Buchanon is from PA. Maybe Biden too. I'm not sure
It has a lot of coastline.
Actually, according to NOAA it has the highest ratio of coastline to total area of any state, even including Rhode ISland and Hawaii.
Since its entry in these stats my native Tennessee was always in the top 20; currently 15th, having just recently passed Massachusetts (again); Top 5 from 1835-1850
What is the reason for the rise of Florida starting in the 1970s? From that point they changed from being a middle of the pack state to number 3 only behind California and Texas (but still closing on them as of now)
the people from the northeast leaving the big cities to the beaches.
invention of air conditioning as a mass produced consumer good
Agree with above, but also industry. Space race made its way to FL in the late 50s I believe. Then Disney and subsequent tourist attractions sprung up in the early 70s.
Actually you would probably find that Florida, Texas and California during the 70s up till today is where the vast majority of illegals end up. Even though they're illegal they still become part of the population, and the Democrats voting base
immigrants
Coming up on July 4th, I paused the video at 3:43 to comment. Very interesting that there were 2 .5 million colonists in 1776. This is really cool. I would like to see the same thing, but show the countries that people came from.
Good video I hope you show all 50 to be seen and having a yearly Comparision
Anyone know what happened to Maryland starting in 1680? Went from 4th to barely 200 people!?
was there a split from a state that was included with Maryland? New York or WV or some other? Im not up to par on my history of states but that would make sense to me
"Correction: The population of Maryland didn't shrink between 1680 -1700 and Connecticut in 1700-1720. Sorry for the data entry mishap. Kindly ignore the two between the respective years." -The video creator.
It’s been a while when these states came from slave trades back then
The crazy thing is that alot of our states are the same size as some countries as far as population or landmass 😂
Florida and New Mexico should be on there from the start. And plenty more like Texas, California, and Louisiana should be appearing long before they actually do. And even if it's "only colonies controlled by Great Britian", (which isn't a truly fair reckoning) then Florida should still be on there between 1763 and 1783 when it was controlled by Great Britain, as well as Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all of which were partially in British West Florida (and had existing settlements like Mobile, Biloxi, and Baton Rouge controlled by Britain) for those 20 years.
Yeah I saw the same problems. Another one is: why are Maine and Massachusetts divided at the very start? They were the same entity until 1820.
@@Bawhoppen Likewise for West Virginia and Kentucky until their own statehood.
Florida Great britain?
@@victordelalcazar Great Britain owned Florida from 1763 to 1783.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Florida
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Florida
@@victordelalcazar Yes Great Britain controlled florida at one point
2:00 Connecticut really said “Sike, you thought! 😂
First census was 1790 and people started moving to North Carolina,then Tennessee, which each new territory opened up people moved big reason was land waiting to be cleared and waiting for farming.
Someone here has forgotten the natives.
Or are the members of the Sioux, Apache, Navajo and many other tribes not inhabitants?
Before the modern day census the natives weren’t counted, but today they are
@@zach2382 gotta correct that
There's little data to be able to input exact population sizes of natives anyway... It would just be a guessing game...
@@edwardgreacen1833 we can try but it might not be very accurate
damn... i've been out of school for so long that i didn't know we have 52 states.
We dont
Lol
Virginia seems to have been very popular
It’s actually amongst the first states to be part of the US. British colonizers also settled around that region.
@@DataPlanet Huh.. Interesting..
Yes, modern day US expanded from the east to west
@@PersonALANtyVirginia also has a place known as “Jamestown” which was a early English colony in the region. Many were from Southwest England. There they had planted tobacco (a highly valuable cash crop) and put African slaves to the fields. Establishing a plantation economy that lasted until after the American Civil War.
@@Shagamaw-100actually Africa was the one sending the slaves to the new colony it was the new trade, and at the time that was just how it was, no one thought it was wrong.....
1680: “Quick! Everyone, out of Maryland!”
1690: “Quick! Everyone, back to Maryland!”
This music is way to ominous to listen to comfortably.
maryland was bipolar near 1:34 😭😭