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During the early 20th century, from 1900 to 1940, New York City's population was predominantly White, accounting for over 93% of the population, with the Black community constituting less than 3%. By the 1950s, the White population decreased to around 90%, while the Black population increased to nearly 10%. From 1970 to 1980, more pronounced ...
Demographics of New York City. Population pyramid of New York City in 2021. Population. 8,260,000 (2023 est.) New York City is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis. [ 1] It is the largest city in the United States with a long history of international immigration. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway ...
The following chart, based on statistics from the U.S. Census from 1850 on, [1] shows the numbers of non-native residents according to place of birth. Because an immigrant is counted in each census during his or her lifetime, the numbers reflect the cumulative population of living non-native residents.
The census counted 248,000 Native Americans in 1890, 332,000 in 1930 and 334,000 in 1940, including those on and off reservations in the 48 states. Total spending on Native Americans averaged $38 million a year in the late 1920s, dropping to a low of $23 million in 1933, and returning to $38 million in 1940.
An 1887 illustration of immigrants on an ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. American immigration history can be viewed in four epochs: the colonial period, the mid-19th century, the start of the 20th century, and post-1965. Each period brought distinct national groups, races, and ethnicities to the United States.
By 1780, New York's population was around 27% descendants of Dutch settlers, about 6% African, and the remainder mostly English with a wide mixture of other Europeans. New Jersey and Delaware had a British majority, with 7–11% Germans, about 6% Africans, and a small contingent of the Swedish descendants of New Sweden.
In 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, [118] 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, [119] and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.
Category. v. t. e. Mulberry Street, on the Lower East Side, circa 1900. During the years of 1898–1945, New York City consolidated. New York City became the capital of national communications, trade, and finance, and of popular culture and high culture. More than one-fourth of the 300 largest corporations in 1920 were headquartered there.