2) The population of the usa. Ethnic diversity, density. Native Americans. Languages.

The current U.S.A. population is over 310 million people (310,300,000 in late 2010)

The United States has the world's third largest population (following China and India)

the current United States population represents a mere 4.5% of the world's population

In 1790, the year of the first census of the U.S.A. population, there were 3,929,214 Americans.

By 1900, the U.S.A. population jumped to 75,994,575.

In 1920 the census counted more than a hundred million people (105,710,620).

Another 100 million people were added to the United States population in just fifty years when the two hundred million barrier was reached in 1970 with 203,302,031 counted in the census.

The 2000 Census counted a U.S.A. population of 281,421,906.

Six years later the U.S. population had grown to 300 million.

The United States' total fertility rate is 2.1

According to The Population Reference Bureau, within another 37 years, the population will pass 400 million.

means a stable no-growth population overall. However, immigration plays a huge impact on the growing U.S. population. Overall the United States population is growing at 0.9% a year

People of different nationalities live in the USA (2009)

White 74.8% African Americans 12.4% Asians 4.5% Hispanians 11.8% Native americans 1.2% Multirusial 2.4%

There are two official languages in the USA

English

Spanish

Other languages which are also spoken

Italian German Polish Yiddish Russian

Population

The USA is the 3^rd largest country in population after China and India. According to the census [ˈsen(t)səs] of 2006, the population was exactly 300 mln people.

The average density is 28.7 people per sq.km. The most densely populated state is New Jersey [ˈʤə:zi] (34/km²), the least populated state is Alaska (1.7/km²).

Until 1500s what is now the USA was largely a wilderness. Small groups of Indians lived scattered over the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. People from Europe saw the chance for better and new lives in this new vast world. Through the years large members of immigrants from Europe and almost every other part of the world settled in the country, except for Black Africans, who was brought in as slaves. The immigrants seeking the rights and opportunities that became part of the American way of life. As a result the USA today has the world’s most varied [ˈvɛərid] population. It has been called the nation of immigrants or the big melting pot. In the American melting pot, people who came together formed a unified culture and one nationality called American. More accurate [ˈækjərət] that the melting pot would be the metaphor salad bowl [bəul] implying that each ingredient makes its contribution and adds flavor to the whole.

The country’s ethnic diversity is great:

• White people comprise 78%;

• Afro-Americans – 12%;

• Latino (a person whose family came from south or central America where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken) and Chicano (a person whose family came from Mexico) – 8%;

• Asia and Native Americans – 2%;

Though mainly European [ˌjuərəˈpi:ən] in origin, Americans are derived from nearly all races and nations of the world including Chinese, Arab [ˈærəb], Eskimo [ˈeskiməu], Polynesian [ˌpɔliˈni:ziən] and native Americans. Over 90% of present day Americans were born in the country whatever the origin. Nearly all have been assimilated into the American way of life, into the definite American nationality which is superficially identifiable by manners and speech.

Languages

English is the official and predominant language. Recently Spanish has become an official language too. All the documents are printed in 2 languages. Spanish is the preferred language of sizeable minorities in NYC, chiefly migrants from Puerto Rico [ˌpwə:təˈri:kəu], in Florida migrants from Cuba and along Mexico borders.

Other minority languages include:

• Italian;

• German;

• Polish;

• Yiddish;

• Russian;

• American Indian tongues;

• Chinese;

• Japanese;