<Tr> <Th> Most populous state </Th> <Td> New York 14,830,192 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Least populous state </Th> <Td> Nevada 162,000 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Seventeenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,697,361, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census . </P> <P> The 1950 census collected the following information from all respondents: </P>

What was the united states population in 1950