And yet this porcine graph, which covers 110 years as the U.S. population shifts, ends up looking like a tall gray heron.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/books/review-the-aftermath-baby-boom.html

By 2038, 34% of the U.S. population will be 65+.

Source: https://thesubtimes.com/2023/05/17/may-is-older-americans-month/

By coincidence, the volume of existing-home sales in 2001 fell within the range of 5.0 to 5.5 million, which is considered normal for the current U.S. population.

Source: https://southafricatoday.net/financial-markets/pending-home-sales-fell-1-5-in-october/

Chicago still is known as the Second City, though it dropped behind Los Angeles to No. 3 in U.S. population back in 1982.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bulls/ct-chicago-bulls-michael-jordan-lebron-james-20230209-dodromrlrjfk5nx5hwxjsrgcmi-story.html

For one, although textured-hair care is the fastest-growing category in hair, with more than half of the U.S. population considered to have textured hair, it’s still considered “niche” by many.

Source: https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/tracee-ellis-ross-creating-last-change-beauty-pattern-hair-care-1235877668/

Given the U.S. population at the time, that meant one out of every 350 Americans was attending the concert.

Source: https://triblive.com/aande/music/funk-to-strings-to-old-school-crooning-music-acts-spring-into-western-pa/

Nearly 200 million people in the United States, or 60% of the U.S. population, are under a heat advisory or flood warning or watch and have been since Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/deep-dive-into-metas-algorithms-shows-that-americas-political-polarization-has-no-easy-fix/article_c79c9dd4-fb80-5b9e-b061-17e5a81d7b04.html

The data, released December 22, 2022, found that the overall U.S. population by 0.4 percent, per the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 national and state population estimates.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/02/texas-florida-largest-gaining-states-terms-population-california-sees-six-figure-decrease/

The share of immigrants in the current Congress is also far below the of the U.S. population as a whole, which was 13.6% in 2021.

Source: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/why-march-madness-betting-is-expected-to-break-records/

While the U.S. population rose just 1.4% from 2018 to 2021, the number of deaths rose 22.0% – the largest increase in mortality in 100 years.

Source: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/05/10/the-fastest-growing-causes-of-death-in-america/