Sentence examples for population gains from inspiring English sources

Rather than housing magnets such as Arizona, Florida and Nevada, it is now more traditional, densely populated states — California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey — that are showing some of the biggest population gains in the recent economic slump, according to the data released Thursday.

The country's biggest population gains were in suburban areas.

An influx of younger immigrants also contributed to the older cities' modest population gains.

Over the longer term, the economy should keep growing at a pace that reflects improving productivity and population gains.

After decades of losing residents to places like Somerset County, many of the state's biggest cities registered population gains.

But population gains in the South and West were driven overwhelmingly by members of minorities, particularly Hispanics.

During the 1990's, Colorado's population gained almost 31percentt, more than double the nation's.

The city's overall population gain, nearly 54,000, was the second highest of the decade.

According to a government report, the net population gain due to immigration last year was 202,000.

It grew by 456,000 people to 8,008,278, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total state population gain.

"The long-term scenario will be at best tepid population gain," he said.