But the population of those of Collins's size who have meaningfully succeeded in the major leagues is tiny.
All but four of the counties in the flat eastern part of the state lost population; of those with gains, three contain Indian reservations.
At the same time, community groups are scrambling to provide services for the expanding population of those with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's.
Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600m to 1.1 billion.
India has more than four times the population of those European countries, and temperatures have been much higher than 40°C.
The population of those 65 years and older is almost 40 million today, and the federal Census Bureau says that will more than double, to nearly 87 million, by midcentury.
They've found the poison could kill some birds, and part of the plan is to catch almost the entire population of those species and keep them in cages for a few months.
The population of those over 65 is set to multiply, with longevity steadily increasing even as median annual household income for the population at large has shrunk to $51,584 in January 2013 from $54,000 in 2008.
Osama al-Nujaifi, the Parliament speaker, who is a Sunni, recently released a statement decrying the wave of government crackdowns, calling them "provocative actions carried out on a daily basis against the population of those areas".
American business created only 71,000 in July, too few to match the growth in the population of those of working age and far too few to shorten the queue of unemployed noticeably.
The data also showed a drastic decrease in arrest levels since the mid-1990s: there were an estimated 2.9 million such arrests in 1996, when the population of those under 18 was smaller than it is today.
