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Resident Population of the 50 States: 1990 and 2000
Ranked by Total State Population

Rank
2000		 State Population
1990		 Population
2000		 Number
Change in
Population		 Percent
Change in
Population
-- United States 248,709,873 281,421,906 32,712,033 13.15
1 California 29,760,021 33,871,648 4,111,627 13.82
2 Texas 16,986,510 20,851,820 3,865,310 22.76
3 New York 17,990,455 18,976,457 986,002 5.48
4 Florida 12,937,926 15,982,378 3,044,452 23.53
5 Illinois 11,430,602 12,419,293 988,691 8.65
6 Pennsylvania 11,881,643 12,281,054 399,411 3.36
7 Ohio 10,847,115 11,353,140 506,025 4.67
8 Michigan 9,295,297 9,938,444 643,147 6.92
9 New Jersey 7,730,188 8,414,350 684,162 8.85
10 Georgia 6,478,216 8,186,453 1,708,237 26.37
11 North Carolina 6,628,637 8,049,313 1,420,676 21.43
12 Virginia 6,187,358 7,078,515 891,157 14.40
13 Massachusetts 6,016,425 6,349,097 332,672 5.53
14 Indiana 5,544,159 6,080,485 536,326 9.67
15 Washington 4,866,692 5,894,121 1,027,429 21.11
16 Tennessee 4,877,185 5,689,283 812,098 16.65
17 Missouri 5,117,073 5,595,211 478,138 9.34
18 Wisconsin 4,891,769 5,363,675 471,906 9.65
19 Maryland 4,781,468 5,296,486 515,018 10.77
20 Arizona 3,665,228 5,130,632 1,465,404 39.98
21 Minnesota 4,375,099 4,919,479 544,380 12.44
22 Louisiana 4,219,973 4,468,976 249,003 5.90
23 Alabama 4,040,587 4,447,100 406,513 10.06
24 Colorado 3,294,394 4,301,261 1,006,867 30.56
25 Kentucky 3,685,296 4,041,769 356,473 9.67
26 South Carolina 3,486,703 4,012,012 525,309 15.07
27 Oklahoma 3,145,585 3,450,654 305,069 9.70
28 Oregon 2,842,321 3,421,399 579,078 20.37
29 Connecticut 3,287,116 3,405,565 118,449 3.60
30 Iowa 2,776,755 2,926,324 149,569 5.39
31 Mississippi 2,573,216 2,844,658 271,442 10.55
32 Kansas 2,477,574 2,688,418 210,844 8.51
33 Arkansas 2,350,725 2,673,400 322,675 13.73
34 Utah 1,722,850 2,233,169 510,319 29.62
35 Nevada 1,201,833 1,998,257 796,424 66.27
36 New Mexico 1,515,069 1,819,046 303,977 20.06
37 West Virginia 1,793,477 1,808,344 14,867 0.83
38 Nebraska 1,578,385 1,711,263 132,878 8.42
39 Idaho 1,006,749 1,293,953 287,204 28.53
40 Maine 1,227,928 1,274,923 46,995 3.83
41 New Hampshire 1,109,252 1,235,786 126,534 11.41
42 Hawaii 1,108,229 1,211,537 103,308 9.32
43 Rhode Island 1,003,464 1,048,319 44,855 4.47
44 Montana 799,065 902,195 103,130 12.91
45 Delaware 666,168 783,600 117,432 17.63
46 South Dakota 696,004 754,844 58,840 8.45
47 North Dakota 638,800 642,200 3,400 0.53
48 Alaska 550,043 626,932 76,889 13.98
49 Vermont 562,758 608,827 46,069 8.19
50 District of Columbia 606,900 572,059 -34,841 -5.74
51 Wyoming 453,588 493,782 40,194 8.86
 
Source: Decennial Censuses of the United States, U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Compiled by the Texas State Data Center,
Department of Rural Sociology,
Texas A&M University
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