FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1999
Public Information Office CB99-252
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Tammany Mulder
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Census Bureau Projects Nation's Population at 274 Million
As New Year Begins
As Americans prepared to ring in the New Year, three months before
Census 2000, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau today projected the
resident population of the United States as of January 1, 2000, at
274,024,000.
The projected population is 2,440,000 (0.9 percent) higher than New
Year's Day, 1999.
The New Year's Day population projection represents an increase of
25,233,000 (10.1 percent) over the population of 248,791,000 on Census Day
(April 1), 1990.
Referring to Census 2000, Census Bureau Director Ken Prewitt said, "The
Census Bureau is prepared to conduct the largest and most complete census
ever, and America is being asked to participate in the new millennium's
first big civic event."
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