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Show Utah Foundation Projects Population Growth in Utah How many people will be living in Utah by the year 1985? According to Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, the private governmental government-al research agency, no one can answer this question with any degree of certainty. They point out that birth and death rate trends, wars, general economic conditions, social and religious influences, job opportunities, and available water supply are just a few of the many factors that will help determine how many people will be living in the state during the years ahead. Although no one can predict pre-dict future populations with accuracy, Foundation analysts analys-ts observe that population projections can be made based bas-ed on specified assumptions regarding interstate migration migra-tion patterns and fertility & mortality rates. The latest-projections latest-projections made by the U. S. Bureau of the Census indicate in-dicate that Utah's population in 1985 is likely to range some where between 1,353,000 and 1,534,000. Following is a summary sum-mary of the high and the low projections for selected years: In 1970 the projected high 1.093,000, and the low 1,073-000; 1,073-000; 1975 high 1,221,000, with a low of 1,155,000; in 1980 the high 1,372,000, with a low of 1.249,000; and in 1985 the high of 1,534,000, with a low of 1,-353,000. 1,-353,000. Latest Census Bureau estimates esti-mates indicate that Utah's population on July 1, 19G7, was 1,024,000. In analyzing Utah's population popula-tion growth during the first-two-thirds of the twentieth century, the report concluded that most of this growth has been the result of natural increase in-crease (excess of births over deaths) rather than new people peo-ple moving into the state. Foundation analysts point out that during the period 1910 to 1940, there was a large net outmigration from Utah. The study notes that World War II and the expansion cf manufacturing activities that followed brought about a reversal re-versal of the downward trend. Between 1940 and 1960 more people came into Utah than left the state. |