The 2010 census estimated Alabama's population at 4,802,740, an increase of 332,636 or 7.5% since

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speakers make up only 0.4% of the population, French/ French Creole at 0.3%, and Chinese at 0.1%. In 2006 Alabama had a larger percentage of tobacco smokers than the national average, with 23% of adults smoking. The religious affiliations of adult people in Alabama are as follows:

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– 86%, Non-Christian Faiths – 1%, Other faiths – 1%, Unaffiliated (religious "nones") – 12% As of 2000, 25.3% of residents of the state were under 18, 6.7% were under 5, and 13.0% were over 65. 51.7% of Alabamians are

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and 48.3% are

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; there is a surplus of 600,000 women in the age range of 25–44.

Population

The 2010 census estimated Alabama's population at 4,802,740, an increase of 332,636 or 7.5% since

. This includes a natural increase of 87,818 (375,808 births minus 287,990 deaths) and a net migration of 73,178 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 30,537 and migration within the country produced a net increase of 42,641. In 2006 Alabama had a larger percentage of tobacco smokers than the national average, with 23% of adults smoking.CDC's STATE System - State Comparison Report Cigarette Use (Adults) – BRFSS
for 2006, lists the state as having 23.3% smokers. The national average is 20.8% according t

article in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The racial makeup of the state and comparison to the prior census:

2020 census

Birth data

''Note: Births in table don't add up, because Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number.'' *Since 2016, data for births of

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origin are not collected, but included in one ''Hispanic'' group; persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Ancestry

Historically, African Americans were brought to Alabama as

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, in greatest numbers in the cotton-producing plantation region known as the Black Belt. This region remains predominantly African American, where many freedmen settled to work at agriculture after the Civil War. The northern part of the state, originally settled by small farmers with fewer slaves, is predominantly

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. The Port of Mobile, founded by the French and subsequently controlled by

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, and the United States, has long had an ethnically diverse population. It has long served as an entry point for various groups settling in other parts of the state. Those citing " American" ancestry in Alabama are of overwhelmingly English extraction, however most

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s identify simply as having American ancestry because their roots have been in North America for so long, in many cases since the early sixteen hundreds. Demographers estimate that a minimum of 20–23% of people in Alabama are of predominantly English ancestry and state that the figure is probably much higher. In the 1980 census 1,139,976 people in Alabama cited that they were of English ancestry out of a total state population of 2,824,719 making them 41% of the state at the time and the largest ethnic group. There are also many more people in Alabama of Scots-Irish origins than are self-reported. Many people in Alabama claim Irish ancestry because of the term "Scots-Irish", but most of the time in Alabama this term is used for those with Scottish roots, rather than Irish. Census 2000 Map – top U.S. ancestries by county Alabama is home to the

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Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is ...

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

, and Creek Native American tribes. Alabama has a growing Hispanic population.

Mexicans Mexicans () are the citizens and nationals of the Mexico, United Mexican States. The Mexican people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish language, Spanish, but many also speak languages from 68 different Languages o ...

are the largest Latino ethnic group in Alabama. Alabama is also home to Guatemalans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Brazilians, Salvadorians, and Panamanians. Mexicans, Central Americans, Germans, Koreans and Vietnamese people have just recently have become part of the state’s population.

Ancestries

Rankings

:Among the 50 states and the

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, Alabama ranks: :*32nd in its percentage of European Americans :*7th in its percentage of

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:*43rd in its percentage of

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:*44th in its percentage of

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:*26th in its percentage of Native Americans :*48th in its percentage of people of

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:*47th in its percentage of

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:*5th in its percentage of

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Religion

The religious affiliations of adult people in Alabama are as follows: *

– 86% **

Evangelical Protestant Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of the Christian ...

– 49% ***

Baptist Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ...

– 31% ***

Pentecostal Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a movement within the broader Evangelical wing of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God in Christianity, God through Baptism with the Holy Spirit#Cl ...

– 5% ***

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...

– 2% *** Restorationist – 3% ***

Holiness movement The Holiness movement is a Christianity, Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakers, Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism. Churches aligned with ...

– 1% **

Mainline Protestant The mainline Protestants (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestantism in the United States, Protestant denominations in the United States and Protestantism in Canada, Canada largely of the Liberal Christianity, theolo ...

– 13% ***

– 2% ***

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christianity, Christian Christian tradition, tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother ...

– 5% ***

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

– 1% ***

Episcopalian Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protes ...

/ – 1% *** Congregationalist – 1% **Historically Black Protestant – 16% ***

– 11% ***

– 3% ***

– 1% *** Holiness Family – 1% **

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– 7% **

LDS LDS may refer to: Organizations Religion * Latter Day Saint movement (LDS movement), a collection of independent church groups **The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest group within the Latter Day Saint movement * Latvijas ...

– 1% **Christian –

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– 6% *Non-Christian Faiths – 1% *Other faiths – 1% *Unaffiliated (religious "nones") – 12% **

Atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

– 1% **

Agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...

– 1% **Nothing in Particular – 9% **Don't Know – 1%

References

''Notes on references''

External links

2000 Census of Population and Housing for Alabama

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