population decrease

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This year’s homeless count saw the overall population decrease for the first time since 2018, highlighted by a 10% annual reduction in unsheltered homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024

In that time, nearly 75 percent of all U.S. counties experienced a natural population decrease, compared with 55 percent of all counties in 2020 and 45 percent in 2019, the Census Bureau found.

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)