This third edition, written with two new coauthors, combines 1990 census data with information from the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and numerous other sources, even including demographic data not available in any other published source.

A renown demographer, Donald Bogue was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His most recent book published is A Treatise on Migration: National and International. Bogue passed away in April 2014.

Douglas L. Anderson is a co-author of The Population of the United States.

Richard E. Barrett is a co-author of The Population of the United States.