These are some of the factoids the Census Bureau released recently in a report entitled ‘The Population Profile of the United States: 2000.’

While emphasizing the final decade of the century, the report contains data for the past 100 years and reflects the most recent information on each topic as of October 2001.

* Some 33 million people were added to the U.S. population between 1990 and 2000, the largest census-to-census increase ever. The 1990s was also the only decade of the 20th century when every state gained population.

* Between 1999 and 2000, 1.7 million people moved into the U.S. from abroad; two-thirds of these movers were foreign-born and not U.S. citizens.

* In 2000, only 11 percent of women at the end of their childbearing years had four or more children, compared with more than three times that percentage in 1976.

* The “traditional” family (married couple with children under 18) has become much less prevalent in recent decades. The proportion of these families fell from 40 percent of all households in 1970 to 24 percent in 2000.

* After five consecutive years of annual increases, real median household income did not change significantly between 1999 and 2000.

* The number of students enrolled in elementary school and high school in 2000 (49 million) matched the previous record set in 1970 when “baby boom” children attended school.

* For the first time ever, computers in 2000 were found in a majority of the country’s homes (51 percent).

* In the three years from 1997 to 2000, the proportion of households with Internet access more than doubled, from 18 percent to 42 percent.

* In 2000, a ratio of 1-in-5 school-age children had at least one foreign-born parent.

(Compiled by Ela Dutt)