The population of Alaska is 626,932 as of the 2000 census in 2008.
The Census Bureau's 2006 estimate is 670,053.
Statewise population of Alaska with detailed information.
Alaska, with an area of one-fifth the size of the conterminous U.S., ranked 47th in population in 2002 with a total estimated at 643786, representing an increase of 2.7% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, Alaska population increased from 550043 to 626932, or 14%.
Population projections for 2005 reached 700000, and the state is expected to have a population of 885000 by 2025. Regions of the settlement and development constitute less than 1% of Alaska's total land area. The population density was 1.1 persons per sq km in 2000, Alaska nation's most sparsely State.
Wikipedia information of Alaska Population 2008
Historically, population movements in Alaska have directly affected economic and political changes. The gold rush in Alaska years 1890 caused a population boom of 32052 in 1890 to 63592 ten years later, by the 1920's, however, when mining declined, Alaska population has declined by 55036 . The region of importance to national defense of USA in the 1940 led to a growing population of 72524 to 128643 during this decade. Oil development, especially the construction of the pipeline from Alaska, has a 78% of the population increase between 1960 and 1980. Virtually all of this gain was migration.
The status of the population is much younger than the nation as a whole. The median age was 32.4 in 2000, compared to the national average of 35.3, and only 5.7% of all the people of Alaska have 65 years or more, by far the lowest such percentage in any state, while 30.4% were under 18 (compared to the national average of 25.7). Alaska is one of the few states where men outnumber women, from 2000 men accounted for 51.7% of residents of Alaska.
About half of Alaska residents live in and around Anchorage, whose population was estimated at 268983 in 2002. In 2001, believes the populations of other major metropolitan areas were Fairbanks, 83694, Juneau, 30558. Less than a quarter of the population lives in the west of Alaska.
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