population decrease
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Ward said changing water temperatures, pollutants, loss of habitat, over-exploitation and barriers to migration have led to the population decrease.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
The population decrease was second only to New York, which lost about 15,000 more people than California, census data show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Last year, when state demographers recorded California’s first population decrease, Bakersfield grew the fastest of the state’s 10 biggest cities, bringing its population to almost 400,000.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
This year, California reported its first yearly population decrease for the first time in the state’s history.
From Fox News ● Oct. 27, 2021
Rural population, decrease in, during last twenty years, 325.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
