title: Nonmetro population rebound continues and broadens.
abstract: "As the decade of the 1990s has progressed, the nonmetro [U.S.]  population has received a substantial net influx of people, leading to sharp reduction in the number of counties with population decline.... A third of the nonmetro counties grew at a rate higher than the Nation as a whole (5.6 percent) from 1990-95, and such counties had three-fourths of all nonmetro growth.... Among major regions, nonmetro population growth continued to be much faster in the West than elsewhere...."
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005843:Geography; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012424:Rural Population; D013383:Suburban Population; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Geographic Factors; Nonmetropolitan Population; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Rural Population; Spatial Distribution--changes; United States