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brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 3 days agoI did the math and it’s 49.37% of the population, based on the 2024 census data, or 49.94% if you exclude Puerto Rico and D.C. I suppose mostly due to Texas and Florida being in the list, but also Ohio, George and North Carolina with over 10M people each.
Here's the raw data
Based on the table from Wikipedia, and the list of states in the article. |State |Population (2024)|Requires Age Verification|Population Requiring Age Verification| |--------------------|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------| |California |39,431,263 | |0 | |Texas |31,290,831 |x |31,290,831 | |Florida |23,372,215 |x |23,372,215 | |New York |19,867,248 | |0 | |Pennsylvania |13,078,751 | |0 | |Illinois |12,710,158 | |0 | |Ohio |11,883,304 |x |11,883,304 | |Georgia |11,180,878 |x |11,180,878 | |North Carolina |11,046,024 |x |11,046,024 | |Michigan |10,140,459 | |0 | |New Jersey |9,500,851 | |0 | |Virginia |8,868,896 |x |8,868,896 | |Washington |7,958,180 | |0 | |Arizona |7,582,384 |x |7,582,384 | |Tennessee |7,227,750 |x |7,227,750 | |Massachusetts |7,136,171 | |0 | |Indiana |6,924,275 |x |6,924,275 | |Maryland |6,263,220 | |0 | |Missouri |6,245,466 |x |6,245,466 | |Wisconsin |5,960,975 | |0 | |Colorado |5,957,493 | |0 | |Minnesota |5,793,151 | |0 | |South Carolina |5,478,831 |x |5,478,831 | |Alabama |5,157,699 |x |5,157,699 | |Louisiana |4,597,740 |x |4,597,740 | |Kentucky |4,588,372 |x |4,588,372 | |Oregon |4,272,371 | |0 | |Oklahoma |4,095,393 |x |4,095,393 | |Connecticut |3,675,069 | |0 | |Utah |3,503,613 |x |3,503,613 | |Nevada |3,267,467 | |0 | |Iowa |3,241,488 | |0 | |Puerto Rico |3,203,295 | |0 | |Arkansas |3,088,354 |x |3,088,354 | |Kansas |2,970,606 |x |2,970,606 | |Mississippi |2,943,045 |x |2,943,045 | |New Mexico |2,130,256 | |0 | |Nebraska |2,005,465 |x |2,005,465 | |Idaho |2,001,619 |x |2,001,619 | |West Virginia |1,712,278 | |0 | |Hawaii |1,446,146 | |0 | |New Hampshire |1,409,032 | |0 | |Maine |1,405,012 | |0 | |Montana |1,137,233 |x |1,137,233 | |Rhode Island |1,112,308 | |0 | |Delaware |1,051,917 | |0 | |South Dakota |924,669 |x |924,669 | |North Dakota |796,568 |x |796,568 | |Alaska |740,133 | |0 | |District of Columbia|702,250 | |0 | |Vermont |648,493 | |0 | |Wyoming |587,618 |x |587,618 | | |343,314,283 | |169,498,848 | | | | |49.37% |
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Ok, that is much closer to half than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It was a reasonable assumption, but the distribution didn’t pan out that way.