FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2002
Robert Bernstein CB02-163
Public Information Office
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Census Bureau Releases 2001 Population Estimates
for Puerto Rico
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released population
estimates as of July 1, 2001, for Puerto Rico's 78 municipios (county
equivalents), including percentage changes, births, deaths and net
migration from Census Day, April 1, 2000, to July 1, 2001, for each
municipio.
The municipio of Toa Alta (total population 66,388) posted the largest
percentage increase in population between 2000 and 2001, 3.8 percent;
followed by Florida (12,819), at 3.7 percent; Gurabo (37,672), at 2.5
percent; and Las Piedras (35,235) and Trujillo Alto (77,394), at 2.2
percent each. San Juan, the island's most populous municipio (433,872),
experienced a 0.1 percent decline in population between 2000 and 2001.
The estimates are consistent with the 2001 population estimate for the
entire commonwealth released by the Census Bureau in December 2001. Puerto
Rico's population then was estimated at 3.84 million, an increase of
31,200 people since April 1, 2000.
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