Updated Dec. 15, 2020 5:50 pm ET
The U.S. population has grown about 8% over the past decade to more than 332 million people, according to a Census Bureau analysis released before the results of the decennial count.
The figures published Tuesday are separate from those gathered by the 2020 census that wrapped up in October. They are a parallel estimate of the population’s demographic contours using records of U.S. births, deaths, immigration and Medicare enrollment that is designed to act as a quality check on the actual census results.
That estimate showed there were about 332.6 million people in the U.S. on census day, April 1, according to the midpoint figure from the bureau’s demographic analysis. The median age in the country was 38.5 years as of that day, up from 37.2 in 2010.