{"id":10641,"date":"2007-02-01T00:41:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/01\/demographics-of-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T21:41:50","slug":"demographics-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/01\/demographics-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was scrolling through the feed of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-opportunities.biz\/\">Business Opportunities Weblog<\/a>, when I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-opportunities.biz\/2007\/01\/30\/found-in-translation-home-biz\/\">the post<\/a> with these numbers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to 2000 U.S. Census data, nearly <strong>47 million people<\/strong> who live in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How much?!  WOW!<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, I got interested in other numbers.  Those 47 people are a part of 281 million people of total USA population in 2000, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_the_United_States\">Demographics of the United States<\/a> Wikipedia article.  There is even a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Population_of_the_United_States%2C_1790-2000.png\">chart of population growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers of total USA population are a bit higher &#8211; 300,000,000 people, as of October 2006 (according to <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/United_States_of_America\">Wikipedia page about USA<\/a>).<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was scrolling through the feed of Business Opportunities Weblog, when I came across the post with these numbers: According to 2000 U.S. Census data, nearly 47 million people who live in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home. How much?! WOW! Then, of course, I got interested in other numbers. Those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/01\/demographics-of-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Demographics of the United States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29251,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/23\/most-of-what-you-read-on-the-internet-is-written-by-insane-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":10641,"position":0},"title":"Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People\" is a nice little roundup of statistics from a several large sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, Reddit, etc. These stats support the viewpoint that on these huge sites, most of the content is generated by a very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11348,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/23\/russian-web-shoppers-the-relative-absolutes\/","url_meta":{"origin":10641,"position":1},"title":"Russian web shoppers : the relative absolutes","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Quintura blog has this nice post with some statistics of Russian online shoppers - how often they buy, what they buy, and how they pay.\u00a0 As any other bit of statistics, it's rather interesting.\u00a0 However, I think there is more to it than the article covers.\u00a0 Here are my random\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16018,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/20\/cyprus-prison-population\/","url_meta":{"origin":10641,"position":2},"title":"Cyprus prison population","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I was reading Cyprus Mail's coverage of Cyprus prison overpopulation problem. \u00a0As any other problem it does involve attention. \u00a0But for me personally the article was more useful with absolute numbers rather than relative. \u00a0This paragraph in particular: Cyprus\u2019 total prison population in June this year, including\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11136,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/02\/amsterdam-netherlands\/","url_meta":{"origin":10641,"position":3},"title":"Amsterdam, Netherlands","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow morning I am leaving for The Next Web Conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.\u00a0 I spent a few minutes in Wikipedia, reading about both Amsterdam and Netherlands.\u00a0 Here are some interesting highlights (direct quotes from Wikipedia): The Netherlands is often called Holland. 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