us_national_population: Population of the United States, 1790-2010
In ropensci/historydata: Datasets for Historians

Description Usage Format Variables References Examples

Population figures for the entire United States of America from the decennial census.

1	us_national_population

A data frame with 23 observations of 2 variables.

year: date of the census.
population: population of the state or territory.

This dataset has been gathered by the NHGIS. Minnesota Population Center, National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011).

head(us_national_population)
if(require(ggplot2)) {
  ggplot(us_national_population,
         aes(x = year, y = population)) +
  geom_line() +
  ggtitle("Population of the United States, 1790-2010")
}