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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowNew U.S. Census figures show that Indiana’s population growth has slowed significantly—a slowdown Indiana University
researchers blame on the recession.
Population estimates released by the Census Bureau show that Indiana’s population
grew by 34,800 between July 2008 and July 2009, up to an estimated 6.42 million residents.
IU’s Indiana Business
Research Center says the state’s population growth in 2009 produced the smallest annual increase since 2004, when the state
added 32,700 residents.
Ninety-four percent of Indiana’s 2009 population growth was caused by there being more
births than deaths in the state.
The estimates keep Indiana as the 16th largest state, with projections showing
the state keeping its nine congressional seats if next year’s census finds similar figures across the country.
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