PR population loss deepened in 2013

{Todo lo que hace AGP es para echar a los jóvenes mas preparados y productivos para que se muden a los Estados donde se vive Mil Veces Mejor que en su adorada Isla. Ya el 62% de los Puertorriqueños residen en los Estados y si en el futuro quisieran regresar deben trabajar por la Estadidad., que es la única opción viable.}

PR population loss deepened in 2013

By CB Online Staff

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Puerto Rico’s population declined by nearly 37,000 people over the past year and continues to fall at a pace that would put it below 3.6 million next year, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.

An update issued Monday pegged Puerto Rico’s population in 2013 in 3.61 million. That was down from 3.72 million in the 2010 Census.

The data show that the estimated population fell to 3.86 million in 2011 and then again to 3.65 million in 2012 before declining to 3.61 million this year.

If that pace continues the island’s population will drop into the 3.5 million range in 2014.

The report adds to a mountain of evidence on Puerto Rico’s plunging population amid a marathon recession that is entering its eighth year, which economists and demographers warn will pose increasingly greater challenges to the island. Human resources executives note that those problems extend to island businesses and Wall Street credit ratings firms now regularly cite population loss as a key challenge for the island economy and efforts to shore up the government’s shaky finances.

The Puerto Rico Planning Board has issued a special report on the island’s rapidly falling birthrate as the government ramps up its study of population loss and its potential impact on economic development.

The number of live births on the island dropped from roughly 60,000 in 2000 to 42,000 by 2010, representing a reduction of nearly 30 percent or an average reduction of 1,700 live births per year.

That downward trend has continued amid an ongoing exodus of young adults to the U.S. mainland during the marathon local economic downturn.

Much attention has been paid to Puerto Rico’s so-called “brain drain” problem that has seen tens of thousands of professionals and other working age adults leave the island for the U.S. mainland amid the ongoing economic doldrums. The number of Puerto Ricans in the states has topped 5 million while Census numbers show that island population is just above 3.6 million.

The population drop also raises the prospect of less federal funding for Puerto Rico, increased pressure on the financially ailing public-pension system and a dramatically aging population with fewer financial resources.

Puerto Rico is among just two dozen national statistical areas around the world that lost population between 2005 and 2010, according to the United Nations.

As the global population topped 7 billion after an unprecedented surge of 1 billion over the past 12 years, Puerto Rico and 23 countries actually saw declines.

They are mostly former Soviet Republics and Eastern European countries. According to the latest U.N. count, of the 24 nations that registered population falls between 2005 and 2010 only Puerto Rico, Germany and some small island nations were not from this region.

El dato mas importante y escondido es que parte del éxodo citado ocurrió durante el 2013, y cuales son las proyecciones a julio del 2014 de cara a las acciones del gobierno y lo acontecido en la Isla durante el año pasado.

Yo haré mi censo en enero y mayo del 2014 en el LMM para establecer la tendencia. – Benjamín

«El presidente de la Junta de Planificación, Luis García Pelatti, sostuvo que esas cifras confirman las proyecciones de la Junta sobre la población de la Isla, pero adelantó que hay que esperar a los números que publicará el Censo en enero para conocer cuánto de esa reducción puede atribuirse a la merma en la tasa de natalidad en Puerto Rico y cuánto es producto de la migración.» – ver sources

Sources:  http://www.elnuevodia.com/puertoricoperdiomashabitantesenel2013-1679765.html

1 de enero de 2014

Puerto Rico perdió más habitantes en el 2013

La pérdida desde el Censo del 2010, el último realizado, fue 110,703 residentes

Por Antonio R. Gómez / antonio.gomez@gfrmedia.com