1950 - Population

Population

The population of the world reaches 2.52 billion, up from 1.65 billion in 1900, nearly 2 million in 1930 (see 1960). The U.S. Census shows a population of 150,697,361, up from fewer than 75 million in 1900, and while the nation's urban population will increase by only 1.5 percent in the decade ahead, its suburban population will increase by 44 percent as middle-class whites flee to the suburbs, partly to escape the decaying social milieu of the inner cities (suburban land values will rise in the next decade by 100 percent to 3,760 percent).

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