Virtually every state in the nation saw a rise in its Latino population from 2000 to 2005, according to the new mid-decade Census Bureau report known as the American Community Survey.
Building on a decade-long census of marine life, these powerful tools provide quantitative baselines of biodiversity at the regional and global level.
It requires districts to have the same population, so that their boundaries must be redrawn after every census (ie, once a decade).
The change has been so rapid that almost half of those born abroad arrived in the decade leading up to the 2011 census.
In December the Government Accountability Office noted that the census's cost has on average doubled each decade since 1970.
Len Cook, head of the office that does the census, says that estimates of a 250, 000 yearly net outflow were more than 50, 000 short over the past decade, added to which the 1991 census overcounted by more than 300, 000.
Las Vegas was the No. 3 city with a population of more than 1 million in terms of growth over the last decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The 2010 census showed that Chicago had shrunk by 200, 000 people in the past decade.
However, per the U.S. census, inflation-adjusted median household income has fallen for more than a decade, a stunning national failure.
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The 2010 U.S. Census, which showed Detroit lost 24 percent of its population over the last decade, was a wake-up call to many city officials and residents.
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According to the latest U.S. census, the city lost almost 19 percent of its population in the first decade of this century, and two-thirds of the population is 40 or older.
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The 2010 Census count shows how the U.S. population has grown and shifted over the last decade.
The Democratic and Republican governors' associations said this year's races are important mainly as a setup for 2010, when the census will initiate a bout of redistricting that could alter the composition of Congress for the following decade.
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At the same time, the disparity between the city's rich and poor continued to grow, and the poverty rate reached its highest point in more than a decade during Mr. Bloomberg's third term, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the 2001 census, India's population was growing at a rate of around 2% a year in the previous decade, a marked decline on earlier decades but still adding 181m people, more than the total population of Brazil.
The latest census says there were 1.34 billion people in 2010, an increase of 5.8% from a decade earlier.
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