According to the 2010 census2, the US population is 308.7 million. This means that over the past ten years, starting from 2000, when its population was 281.4 million, it has increased by 27.3 million, or 9.7%. These figures also indicate that from 2000 to 2010 the population growth in the country was less than in the 1990s, then it was equal to 32.7 million people (13.2%). The previous peak was in the 1950s – the American population increased by 28 million, or 18.5%. The indicators of the last decade are comparable to the relative data of the 1980s – 9.8%, and they turned out to be the lowest after the crisis of the 1930s – 7.3%, marked by an unprecedented drop in the birth rate and insignificant migration