Population and Race Trends Graph and Pie Charts for Kentucky from 2000 to 2012

The population of Kentucky went from 4,048,903 to 4,380,415 from 2000 to 2012 for a total growth of 331,152. 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. Kentucky had a total percentage growth for those 12 years of 8.2 percent which was 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 Kentucky can be seen on the graph below. The graph which is logarithmic indicates that although the growth was slower for Kentucky than the United States the trends were similar.

Population of Kentucky 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
Kentucky	4,380,415	4,369,356	4,347,223	4,314,113	4,287,931	4,256,278	4,219,374	4,182,293	4,147,970	4,118,627	4,091,330	4,069,191	4,048,903

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 Kentucky.

The race percentages for Kentucky are shown with the table and charts below that indicate there have been changes from July 1, 2000 to July 1, 2012. The percentage of the population of white only has decreased from 89.4 to 85.9. The percent of the black only population has increased from 7.3 to 7.9. The percent of population of hispanic / mixed has increased from 1.5% to 3.2% and other/mixed races have increased from 1.8% to 3.0%.

Population by Race for the State of Kentucky
Race	July 1, 2000	% of Total	July 1, 2012	% of Total
White Only	3,618,849	89.4	3,761,002	85.9
Black Only	296,320	7.3	345,472	7.9
Hispanic* / Mixed	60,730	1.5	142,028	3.2
Other / Mixed Non-Hispanic	73,122	1.8	131,913	3.0
Total Races with Hispanic*	4,049,021**	100.00	4,380,415	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 Kentucky for it's population.

Pie chart for population by race for Kentucky. Different races for the population of kentucky in 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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