Population
As seen in the table, Retamal population has witnessed a steady growth and continued until the middle of 20th century which is when population reaches its ceiling. From 1950 emigration has plagued this county with the intensity that has been, until 1981, almost 70 to 100 of the population effective.
However, in the last five years some population has recovered as a result of a slight return process. Emigration has caused a profound aging in this population and, therefore increased mortality and a falling birth rate. Naturally, all result is a negative natural growth in recent years.
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Famous quotes containing the word population:
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“This was the Eastham famous of late years for its camp- meetings, held in a grove near by, to which thousands flock from all parts of the Bay. We conjectured that the reason for the perhaps unusual, if not unhealthful development of the religious sentiment here, was the fact that a large portion of the population are women whose husbands and sons are either abroad on the sea, or else drowned, and there is nobody but they and the ministers left behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
—Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)