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In The Long Run

  • by Carolyn Dimitri and Anne Effland
  • 5/1/2007
  • Statistic
  • Farm Economy

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.

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