117th edition. Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.

Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.

Filled with insight on who we are, where we live, what we do, what we eat, where we work, and how we spend our nation's resources, The American Almanac contains tens of thousands of interesting facts about the United States. One of the world's great reference books.--Newsweek.