United States of America Population Pyramid 2002
United States of America in 2002
The population of the United States of America in 2002 was 287,084,338. A decade earlier, in 1992, the population was 259,606,020; it has grown by 10.6% since. The median age was 35.6 years, and for every 100 people of working age (15–64) there were 31.2 children under 15 and 18.1 people aged 65 or over. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.
The bulge of cohorts born between 1946 and 1964 — the post-war baby boom — is the defining feature of the United States pyramid, visible as it moves up the age scale over the decades.
Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.
