Here, let us take a look at the Geography of United States. note 1: world's third-largest country by size (after Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and India); Mt. McKinley is the highest point (6,190 m; 20,308 ft) in North America, and Death Valley is the lowest point (-86 m; -282 ft)
note 2: the western US coast and the southern coast of Alaska lie along the Ring of Fire, which is a belt bordering the Pacific Ocean that contains about 75% of the world's volcanoes and up to 90% of the world's earthquakes
note 3: the Aleutian Islands are a chain of volcanic islands that divide the Bering Sea (north) from the main Pacific Ocean (south); they extend about 1,800 km (1,118 mi) westward from the Alaskan Peninsula; the archipelago consists of 14 larger islands, 55 smaller islands, and hundreds of islets; there are 41 active volcanoes on the islands, which together form a large northern section of the Ring of Fire
note 4: Mammoth Cave, in west-central Kentucky, is the world's longest known cave system with more than 650 km (405 miles) of surveyed passageways, which is nearly twice as long as the second-longest cave system, the Sac Actun underwater cave in Mexico (see "Geography - note" under Mexico)
note 5: Kazumura Cave on the island of Hawaii is the world's longest and deepest lava-tube cave; it has been surveyed at 66 km (41 mi) long and 1,102 m (3,614 ft) deep
note 6: Bracken Cave outside San Antonio, Texas is the world's largest bat cave and the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world; an estimated 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost in the cave from March to October, making it the world's largest known concentration of mammals.
Mother's mean age at first birth is N/A
, whereas, the Maternal mortality ratio is N/A.
Large urban clusters are spread throughout the eastern half of the US (particularly the Great Lakes area, northeast, east, and southeast) and the western-tier states; mountainous areas such as the Rocky Mountains and Appalachians, deserts in the southwest, the dense boreal forests in the extreme north, and the central prairie states are less densely populated; Alaska's population is concentrated along its southern coast, particularly around Anchorage, and Hawaii's is centered on the island of Oahu
In United States, the different Ethnic groups are such that we have: White 61.6%, Black or African American 12.4%, Asian 6%, Indigenous and Alaska native 1.1%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.2%, other 8.4%, two or more races 10.2% (2020 est.)
| Population | N/A |
|---|---|
| Pop growth rate | 0.45% (2025 est.) |
| Birth rate | 10.75 births/1,000 population (2025 est.) |
| Death rate | 8.76 deaths/1,000 population (2025 est.) |
| Current health expenditure | N/A |
| Physicians Density | N/A |
| Hospital bed Density | 2.7 beds/1,000 population (2020 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 1.63 children born/woman (2025 est.) |
| Gross reproduction rate | 0.02 (2025 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | N/A |
| Est married women (ages 15-49) | N/A |
| Literacy | N/A |
| Education expenditures | N/A |
| Net Migration rate | N/A |
| Nationality | American | American(s) |
| Languages | N/A |
| Religions | N/A |
| Age Structure | |
| 0-14 years | 18.1% (male 31,618,532/female 30,254,223) |
| 15-64 years | 63.4% (male 108,553,822/female 108,182,491) |
| 65 years and over | 18.5% (2024 est.) (male 28,426,426/female 34,927,914) |
| Dependency Ratios | |
| Total dependency ratio | 56 (2025 est.) |
| Youth dependency ratio | 26.8 (2025 est.) |
| Elderly dependency ratio | 29.2 (2025 est.) |
| Potential support ratio | 3.4 (2025 est.) |
| Median Age | |
| Total | 39.5 years (2025 est.) |
| Male | 37.8 years |
| Female | 40 years |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 83.3% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.96% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 18.937 million New York-Newark, 12.534 million Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, 8.937 million Chicago, 6.707 million Houston, 6.574 million Dallas-Fort Worth, 5.490 million WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) (2023). |
| Sex Ratio | |
| At birth | 1.05 male(s)/female |
| 0-14 years | 1.05 male(s)/female |
| 15-64 years | 1 male(s)/female |
| 65 years and over | 0.81 male(s)/female |
| Total population | 0.97 male(s)/female (2024 est.) |
| Infant Motality | |
| Total | 5 deaths/1,000 live births (2025 est.) |
| Male | 5.4 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Female | 4.7 deaths/1,000 live births |
| Life Expectancy at birth | |
| Total population | 80.9 years (2024 est.) |
| Male | 78.7 years |
| Female | 83.1 years |
| Drinking Water Sources | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 100% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 0% of population (2022 est.) |
| Sanitation facility acess | |
| Improved: urban | urban: 99.9% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: rural | rural: 98.5% of population (2022 est.) |
| Improved: total | total: 99.6% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: urban | urban: 0.1% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: rural | rural: 1.5% of population (2022 est.) |
| Unimproved: total | total: 0.4% of population (2022 est.) |
| Major Infectious diseases | |
| Alcohol consumption per capita | |
| Total | 8.93 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Beer | 3.97 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Wine | 1.67 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Spirits | 3.29 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Other alcohols | 0 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.) |
| Tobacco use | |
| Total | 22.1% (2025 est.) |
| Male | 27.7% (2025 est.) |
| Female | 16.7% (2025 est.) |
| Child marriage | |
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