population decrease

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Employees of the prison may also be leaving as jobs dry up, contributing to population decrease.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2023

In Maine, Delaware, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, the natural population decrease occurred in every county.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

Last year, when state demographers recorded California’s first population decrease, Bakersfield grew the fastest of the state’s 10 biggest cities, bringing its population to almost 400,000.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2021

This year, California reported its first yearly population decrease for the first time in the state’s history.

From Fox News • Oct. 27, 2021

Rural population, decrease in, during last twenty years, 325.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)