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AmberWaves June 2005 > Indicators > In the Long Run
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Farm population as a share of total U.S. population


Farm population has fallen steadily as a share of total U.S. population for more than a century. Less than half the U.S. population has lived on farms since these data were first collected in 1880.

Farm population has decreased steadily

 

 

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