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Pace
and Sources of Nonmetro Population Growth
Changing
Calvin
L. Beale
The pace and components
of nonmetro population change have varied
widely over the past eight decades.
Before the 1970s, nonmetro population
declined heavily from outmigration,
but these losses were offset by strong
natural increase (surplus of births
over deaths). Since the dramatic revival
of nonmetro growth in the 1970s, nonmetro
counties have had a net influx of people
in each decade, except for the rural
economic crisis years of the 1980s.
Natural increase has diminished in each
decade since the baby boom years of
the 1950s. The current nonmetro population
growth rate is modest and for the first
time is comprised equally of net inmigration
and natural increase.
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