{
  "name": "Population, births and deaths used in the charts, April 2020 to July 2025",
  "desc": "U.S. resident population on April 1, 2020 and each July 1 from 2020 to 2025; births and deaths in each period; births and deaths per day; deaths added up since April 1, 2020; births and births per 1,000 residents for the 50 states and the District of Columbia; births by Census region. One row per value, with the period, its length in days and the Census column it came from.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "The Yardstick Almanac",
  "url": "https://theyardstickalmanac.com/reading-charts/misleading-graphs/",
  "from": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Vintage 2025 national and state population estimates and components of change (NST-EST2025-ALLDATA.csv, released January 2026, unmodified copy)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by The Yardstick Almanac from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Computed from U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates (NST-EST2025-ALLDATA, released January 2026, public domain), retrieved 2026-11-01, CC BY 4.0"
  ]
}