10 simple charts that show the wild ways America has changed since 2010

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Former US President Barack Obama

• The 2010s are about to come to a close, and America has changed a lot over the last 10 years.
• Over the last decade, America has become larger, more prosperous, better educated, and more diverse.
• We put together 10 charts showing what those changes have looked like since 2010.
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The 2010s are about to come to a close, and America has changed a lot over the last 10 years.

At the start of the decade, the economy was just coming out of the depths of the Great Recession, when millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes after a housing market crash and financial crisis between 2007 and 2009. As the 2010s come to a close, a decade of more-or-less steady economic growth has slowly but surely brought unemployment to its lowest point in decades.

America has become larger, more prosperous, better educated, and more diverse. As we wait to see what the 2020s have in store, here are 10 charts that show how America's economy and population have changed since 2010: