Population and Race trends for Illinois with Pie Charts and Graph from 2000 to 2012

The population of Illinois went from 12,437,645 to 12,875,255 from 2000 to 2012 for a total growth of 437,610. The population of the United States for that same time period went from 282,171,957 to 313,914,040 for a total population growth of 31,742,083. Illinois had a total percentage growth for those 12 years of 3.5 percent which was much slower than the overall United States total percentage growth which was 11.2 over those same years. The trends of growth for both the United States and Illinois can be seen on the logarithmic graph below.

Population of Illinois and the United States Annually from 2000 to 2012
Territory	7/1/2012	7/1/2011	7/1/2010	7/1/2009	7/1/2008	7/1/2007	7/1/2006	7/1/2005	7/1/2004	7/1/2003	7/1/2002	7/1/2001	7/1/2000
United States	313,914,040	311,591,917	309,330,219	307,006,550	304,374,846	301,579,895	298,593,212	295,753,151	293,045,739	290,326,418	287,803,914	285,081,556	282,171,957
Illinois	12,875,255	12,869,257	12,841,980	12,910,409	12,842,954	12,779,417	12,718,011	12,674,452	12,645,295	12,597,981	12,558,229	12,507,833	12,437,645

Annual Estimates and data of the Resident Population for the United States and States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009 (NST-EST2009-01)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Release Date: December 2009
Annual Estimates of the Population for the United States and States: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2011 (NST-EST2011-01)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Release Date: December 2011

Graph of population growth trend for Illinois.

The race percentages for Illinois are shown with the table and charts below that indicate there have been changes from 2000 to 2012. The percentage of the population of white only has decreased from 67.6 to 63.0. The percent of the black only population has increased from 14.9 to 14.2. The percent of population of hispanic / mixed has increased from 12.8% to 16.3% and other/mixed races have increased from 4.7% to 6.4%.

Population by Race for the State of Illinois
Race	July 1, 2000	% of Total	July 1, 2012	% of Total
White Only	8,437,752	67.6	8,114,559	63.0
Black Only	1,865,851	14.9	1,833,878	14.2
Hispanic* / Mixed	1,601,533	12.8	2,101,208	16.3
Other / Mixed Non-Hispanic	583,309	4.7	825,610	6.4
Total Races with Hispanic*	12,488,445**	100.00	12,875,255	100.0

*Hispanics are technically not considered a race but rather an ethnicity.
**Note the slight difference of the population used in race chart from population chart above. Totals were taken from U.S. Census bureau which contained differences between it's total population table for the states and population totals for the state with the breakdown of the races.

Representative pie charts for the different races of the Illinois for it's population.

Population by Race Pie Chart for Illinois Breakdown of Races for Illinois for 2012.

References:

Population Estimates, 2013, United States Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/popest/data/historical/2010s/index.html

List of U.S. states and territories by population, 2013, Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population

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