FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1998 Public Information Office CB98-241 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Matthew Christenson 301-457-1358 Census Bureau Releases 1998 Population Estimates for Puerto Rico The population of Puerto Rico on July 1, 1998, was 3,860,091, an increase of 323,181 people since April 1, 1990, according to estimates released on the Internet today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. Puerto Rico's average annual growth rate between 1990 and 1998 was 1.1 percent, compared to a 1.0 percent increase for the 50 states and the District of Columbia during the same period. The Census Bureau prepared these population estimates for Puerto Rico using the latest available data on births, deaths and net migration. In addition to the 1998 data, population estimates and their components (birth, deaths, and net migration) for 1990 through 1997 also are available on the Internet.-X-The U.S. Census Bureau, pre-eminent collector and disseminator of timely, relevant and quality data about the people and the economy of the United States, conducts a population and housing census every 10 years, an economic census every five years and more than 100 demographic and economic surveys every year, all of them evolving from the first census in 1790.
