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- From: dovey@renoir.llnl.gov (Donald Dovey)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing. Was: Trip rpt: SE Utah 4wd vacation, part 3/4
- Keywords: population growth
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:21:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.185820.25091@news.uiowa.edu> <141643@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1992Nov17.140235.29055@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <Nov17.162828.53951@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov17.232921.16325@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov17.232921.16325@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
- karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone have any authoritative statistics on the contribution immigration,
- >both legal and illegal, makes to the rate of population growth in the U.S.?
-
- The population of the U.S. on Jan 1, 1990 was estimated at 249.6 million, a
- 10.2 percent increase over the April 1, 1980 census count of 226.5 million.
- The growth of 23.1 million was attributed to a natural increase of 16.5
- million (births - deaths) and a net immigration of 6.6 million. The South
- and West accounted for 87 percent of the nation's growth from 1980 to 1990.
-
- Year U.S. population
- -------------------------
- 1880 50 million
- 1915 100 million
- 1949 150 million
- 1967 200 million
- 1990 250 million
-
- Looks like continuous growth to me.
-
- Source: The World Almanac 1991
-
- Some comments --
-
- This took me 3 minutes to look up in the library last night. Come on,
- folks.
-
- If you look at the projected growth of almost any western U.S. city,
- it is expected to gain large amounts of population in the next 20 years.
-
- On SGI workstations, there is a demo program with a time slider which
- can be moved along U.S. history. The program displays a map of the U.S.
- with the states elevated proportional to their population during the
- current year. Play with the program a little, and one of the most salient
- trends is California shooting upward in the last 10-20 years.
-
- I've directed followups to talk.environment.
-
- --
- Don Dovey dovey@llnl.gov
-