What is Demographics Of Alaska?

Historical populations
Census	Pop.		%
1950	128,643		—
1960	226,167		0%
1970	300,382		0%
1980	401,851		0%
1990	550,043		0%
2000	626,932		0%

As of 2005, Alaska has an estimated population of 663,661, which is an increase of 5,906, or 0.9%, from the prior year and an increase of 36,730, or 5.9%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 36,590 people (53,132 births minus 16,542 deaths), and an increase due to net migration of 1,181 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 5,800 people, and migration within the country produced a net loss of 4,619 people.

With a population of 626,932, according to the 2000 U.S. census,^[1] Alaska is ranked 48th out of the 50 states. But ranked by population density, Alaska is the least densely populated at 2.849 people per square kilometer (1.1 per square mile), with the next nearest ranking state, Wyoming, at 13.208 (5.1 per square mile), and the most densely populated, New Jersey, at 2937.92 people per square kilometer (1,134.4 per square mile).

For purposes of the federal census, the state is divided into artificial divisions defined geographically by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

The center of population of Alaska is located approximately 64.37 kilometers (39.96 miles) east of Anchorage at 61.288254 N. latitude, -148.716968 W. longitude.^[2].

Since the 2000 census Alaska has passed North Dakota to become the 47th most populated state.

Race and ancestry

Multiracial/Mixed-Race people are the third largest group of people in the state, totaling 6.9% of the population or 44,426. The largest ancestry groups in the state are: German (16.6%), Alaska Native or American Indian (15.6%), Irish (10.8%), British (9.6%), American (5.7%), and Norwegian (4.2%). Alaska has the largest percentage of American Indians of any state.

The vast, sparsely populated regions of northern and western Alaska are primarily inhabited by Alaska Natives, who are also numerous in the southeast. Anchorage, Fairbanks, and other parts of south-central and southeast Alaska have many whites of northern and western European ancestry. The Wrangell-Petersburg area has many residents of Scandinavian ancestry and the Aleutians contain a large Filipino population. Most of the state's black population lives in Anchorage. Fairbanks also has a sizable black population as well.

Languages

According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 85.7% of Alaska residents age 5 and older speak English at home. The next most common languages are Spanish (2.88%), Yupik (2.87%), Tagalog (1.54%), and Iñupiaq (1.06%).^[3]

A total of 5.2% of Alaskans speak one of the state's 22 indigenous languages, known locally as Native languages. These languages belong to two major language families, Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dené (Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit). As the homeland of these two major language families of North America, Alaska has been described as the crossroads of the continents, providing evidence for the recent settlement of North America via the Bering land bridge.

Eskimo-Aleut family Aleut Sirenik Eskimo family Central Alaskan Yup'ik Central Siberian Yupik (Yuit) Alutiiq (Pacific Gulf Yupik) Naukan Inuit family Iñupiaq

Athabaksan-Eyak-Tlingit family Tlingit Eyak Athabaskan family (spec. Northern Athabaskan) Ahtna Dena’ina (Tanaina) Deg Hit’an (Ingalik, Deg Xinag) Holikachuk (Innoko) Koyukon Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan) Lower Tanana (Tanana) Tanacross Upper Tanana Gwich’in (Kutchin) Hän

Haida language Tsimshianic Coast Tsimshian[4]

Religion

• Christian – 78%
• Protestant – 62%
• Baptist – 11%
• Lutheran – 8%
• Methodist – 6%
• Pentecostal – 2%
• Quaker – 1%
• Eastern Orthodox – 8%
• Roman Catholic – 7%
• Episcopal – 1%
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – 4%
• Buddhist – 10%
• Not religious/agnostic – 7%
• Other religions – 1%

Notable is Alaska's relatively large Eastern Orthodox Christian population, a result of early Russian colonization and missionary work among indigenous Alaskans. Alaska also has the largest Quaker population (by percentage) of any state. Also, as of 1994, there are 3,060 Jews in Alaska. ^[5] Jehovah's Witnesses stands at a little less than 2,400.

References

	•  • [ e] State of Alaska Juneau (capital)
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