Template:Historical populations/doc

Template:Historical populations is used as an information box on pages, showing each census year with a population, and a percent gain/loss comparison. It is intended to combine the functionalities of two existing templates, Template:US Census population and Template:Histpop, the former of which is specialized for the United States, and the latter of which lacks many features of the former.

Usage
This template takes a series of parameters in the form. This template does not require any more than that. This template will take between 0 and 50 entries; any more will be ignored.

United States
The following code will yield the table on the right.



Smaller areas
The following code will yield the table on the right.



Non-regular date ranges
For non-regular date ranges, use  to show annual growth rate percentages.



Two columns
For a multicolumn non-floating table use  and



Horizontal direction
For a horizontally arranged table use

