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zdragnar · 2019-05-17 12:55:35

The raw numbers don't lie. Both brackets (0-35k and 35k-100k) have been shrinking as a percetage of the population, with 100k+ growing.

luyu_wu | karma 374 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2024-06-10 00:29:58

Interestingly, the population has only decreased by about 1%. It's amazing how such a seemingly small change can have such a large effect.

kawhah | karma 306 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2023-11-24 06:15:47

It is still small in relation to population change though.

Steltek | karma 3719 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2023-02-13 11:05:14

In my town, population went down but children-per-family decreased even more, effectively raising the number of households/family-units that needed separate homes. A raw population count is not always what it seems.

njwi332 | karma 40 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2018-03-07 07:17:53

This isn't actually correct, or at least it's not a correct interpretation of the data. The absolute number increased, but it decreased as a percentage of population, which is the relevant number here.

bombcar | karma 42761 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2022-09-27 18:27:18

Population went from 289 million to 329 million. That’s not nothing.

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2022-04-09 15:58:11

The decrease was in estimated 2021 vs 2020 population, not census 2020 vs 2010.

moron4hire | karma 11137 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2021-02-19 18:49:33+00:00

But we know from web statistics that these are very few people and shrinking every year.

roflyear | karma 1861 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2022-07-19 09:02:04

Incorrect. You can have an increasing segment of the population in count but the percentage of that population of the whole of the population is decreasing.

mlyle | karma 13869 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2022-06-02 13:59:46

> Rate of change: Enrollment increased by 4 times. Population increased by 100 times.

But 20,000 / 1,500 is 13x.

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s9w | karma 1590 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2021-08-26 23:15:46

It's still true. At least when taking population changes into account.

missedthecue | karma 7595 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2021-08-29 10:51:04

Which is fewer than 1990, despite the population growing.

gillianseed | karma 1076 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2013-09-04 19:36:17

What is this 'shrinking demographic' exactly?

sillysaurus2 | karma 4936 | avg karma 5.81 · | 2013-10-17 18:14:54+00:00

Absolute population growth includes immigration, so those numbers may be skewed somewhat.

wglb | karma 64679 | avg karma 7.38 · | 2019-12-11 04:13:17

I don’t think numbers are declining.

In related news, see https://www.rrmediagroup.com/News/NewsDetails/NewsID/18899

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refurb | karma 27208 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2018-10-25 18:21:28+00:00

This is the change in the size of each economic group between 1979 and 2014 as a percent of the total population

Then aren't your numbers a positive sign? The size of the poor, lower middle class and middle class have shrank and the upper middle and rich have grown.

Doesn't that suggest that people are generally moving up in economic class?

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