Nadene Goldfoot
United States/Population
- The current population of the United States of America is 332,272,677 as of Friday, February 26, 2021, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
328.2 million (2019) was the population of the USA. It's increased by 4 million in 2 years despite Covid.
2.3 million people are in prison.
As of 2016, 2.3 million people were incarcerated in the United States, at a rate of 698 people per 100,000. Total US incarceration peaked in 2008. Total correctional population (prison, jail, probation, parole) peaked in 2007. In 2008 the US had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners.
510,205 people Americans have died from COVID 19 so far as of today. At least 2,465 new coronavirus deaths and 77,804 new cases were reported in the United States on Feb. 25. Over the past week, there has been an average of 69,450 cases per day, a decrease of 32 percent from the average two weeks earlier. As of Friday evening, more than 28,506,000 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus according to a New York Times database.
2.5 million in the world have died from COVID 19 so far.
More men than women are dying from COVID-19. Why? The data show that COVID-19 case and mortality rates for men and women vary widely among U.S. states. “In some states, the mortality rate among men is almost double the rate among women,” said Rushovich. “In other states, it’s almost equal. That suggests there’s probably other context—social factors, occupational exposures—that are influencing why the rates are varying between men and women, and that it’s not only related only to biological differences.” Facts are incomplete due to differing reporting systems in our states.
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza.
Therefore, we have gone from 34,200 to 510,205 deaths from the flu with the 2020-2021 flu being a part of a world pandemic. COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness.
In 2019, about 16.5% of the American population was 65 years old or over; a figure which is expected to reach 22 percent by 2050. This is a significant increase from 1950, when only eight percent of the population was 65 or over.Jan 20, 2021.
Today, the number of children (under age 18) in the United States is at an all-time high of 74.2 million. But, the percentage of the U.S. population who are under 18 is at an all time low of 24%. Based on data from the 2010 census, we find that while there is a small increase in the number of children under 18 in the US, the rate at which that population is growing has slowed dramatically over the past 20 years.
That leaves 60% of our Americans between the ages 19 and 64, our workforce. They're the ones affected economically by COVID 19 the most, the ones the children are dependent on.
Cancer was the second leading cause of death, after heart disease, in the United States in 2019. In 2019, there were 599,601 cancer deaths; 283,725 were among females and 315,876 among males.
Resource;
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/more-men-than-women-are-dying-from-covid-19-why/
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