The stats below were just sent to me by Joyce Tarnow, President of Floridians for Sustainable Growth.
Because of the U.S. economic disaster, Florida did not grow it’s population in 2008. That is temporary. U.F.’s Bureau of Economic & Business Research projects a “...normal growth of about 317,000 a year between 2010 and 2020...”. The Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research projects a population of 20 million in Florida possibly as early as 2015.
In the seven years from April 2000-April 2007 we grew by 16.9% to 18,680,367.
During those seven years natural increase accounted for 12.5% and net migration topped 87.5%.
Those same years saw three counties, Flagler, Sumter and Osceola increase by over 50% while St. Johns, St. Lucie and Walton counties experienced population growth from 40.6% to 41.3%.
In March 2009 U.S population was 306,019,421 with a net gain of one person every 13 seconds. The growth included the addition of one international migrant every 36 seconds. While the U.S. is growing at a rate of 0.6% approximately 3 million added annually, Europe and Japan have a growth rate of minus zero. YOU NEED TO GET INVOLVED! Join us, get in the loop......
