LANSING – Michigan lost more people in 2011, according to estimates released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, but the decline was relatively small and did not affect the state’s status in terms of the percentage of population it holds in the United States.
Unlike the decennial census issued a year ago, Michigan was not the only state to lose population during 2011, though it had the largest loss. Rhode Island and Maine also reported slight population drops.
According to the statistics, Michigan had 9,876,187 people in 2011, a total of 7,453 fewer people than the official number tallied in the 2010 census.
That means that 3.2 percent of all American residents are Michiganders, according to the statistics, the same percentage as a year ago.
Nationally, there were 311.591 million people in the United States during 2011, and increase of 2.261 million people from 2010. Despite the increase, the nation recorded one of the slowest percentage increases since the 1940s.
Michigan also remains the eighth-largest state in the nation based on population.
The 2011 population is, however, 179,128 people fewer than the state had estimated at its peak in 2004, according to the statistics.
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