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APPENDIX II

POPULATION STATISTICS

APPENDIX II-POPULATION STATISTICS

TABLE 1.-Population of the United States including Armed Forces overseas by age

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Data from: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Current Population Reports, Series P-25 and unpublished quarterly age distributions.

1 Annual data are estimates as of July 1.

? Distributions by age groups include Alaska beginning with July 1959 and Hawaii beginning with January 1960.

3 Beginning with Feb. 1, 1959, population totals include Alaska, which became a State on Jan. 3, 1959, and had a population of 153,000 at that time. Beginning with Sept. 1, 1959, totals also include Hawaii, which then had a population of 603,000.

Source: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Indicators, December 1960.

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TABLE 2.-Number of persons 65 and over and percentage of total State population for selected years, 1890-1957, by State

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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Population: 1950, vol. II-"Char-
acteristics of the Population," pts. 2-50. Bureau of the Census, Current Population

Reports, Population Estimates, Series P-25, No. 214, Mar. 24, 1960.

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