Women's Research & Education Institute

This section presents basic statistics about the people who live in the United States, with particular attention to those who are female. Some projections about the U.S. population in years to come are included here, as are some data from past years. Here, as in every section of the “Statistical Portrait,” each table and figure is accompanied by a sentence or two intended to help the reader make sense of the numbers.KeywordsAmerican WomanCensus BureauPercent DistributionBaby BoomerPopulation ProjectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

National demographic trends are coupled with other socioeconomic factors to predict family, occupational, and social structure during the next two decades