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Florida Demographic Summary- 2000

From the Florida Legislature

Despite a recent slowing in the rate of growth in new residents, Florida remains one of the fastest growing states in the nation. During the 1980's, the number of people in the state rose by 3.2 million, second only to California. This represents nearly a 33% increase in population over that decade and as a result, Florida passed Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania to become the fourth largest state. (In 1950 Florida ranked twentieth in size.) This rapid population growth was not unusual, as Florida has been in the top four states in population growth rates every decade as far back as the 1920's.

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Within the state, the last ten years saw six counties increase in residents by more than 50% (Charlotte, Collier, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hernando, and Osceola). Florida's population is an urbanized population. In 1990, 85% of the state's population lived in urban areas and 50% reside in its nearly 400 municipalities.

Population can be measured as the result of four components, or forces- births, deaths, inmigration, and outmigration. During the 1980's the number of births was just over 1.6 million, while the number of deaths totaled just under 1.2 million. Thus the natural population growth of slightly more than 420,000 represented just one-eighth of the total increase. The remaining increase in population was due to migration. The 1980's saw 2.8 million more people move into the state than move out of it.

The population estimates presented here represent permanent residents only, as defined by the Census Bureau guidelines of "usual place of residence". Tourists and seasonal residents are thus excluded. Persons from foreign countries are included regardless of legal status and college students, military personnel and prison inmates are included as residents where they are living, not where their "hometown" is.

The total state population is projected to be 15,524.481 on April 1, 2000, an increase of 2,586,555 over the 1990 census count of 12,937,926. This means that during the decade of the 1990's, Florida will have experienced a population growth of 20%, compared to a 10.5% growth rate projected for the U.S. Slower growth is expected during the first decade of the 21st century with Florida's population growing to 17,942,330 by April 1, 2010 (a 15.6% increase over 2000).

Florida's age distribution on April 1, 2010 will reflect the continuation of an aging trend of the population. In 1980, there were 1,687,573 Floridians aged 65 and older (17.3 percent of the total population). The 1990 census enumerated 2,355,926 elderly (18.2 percent of total) and by April 1, 2010, this age group will number 3,401,881 and constitute 19 percent of the total population. These changes represent increases of 39.6 percent between 1980 and 1990, 20.9 percent between 1990 and 2000, and 19.4 percent between 2000 and 2010. The population aged 85 and older was one of the fastest growing age segments during the 1980's, increasing by 75.1 percent. This group is expected to increase by more than half again during the last decade of this century and number 330,936 by April 1, 2000. High rates of growth will continue for this age group through the first decade of the next century with the age 85 and older population projected at 490,681 by 2010. This demographic change is dramatically highlighted in the population pyramids.

In contrast, the youth population (ages 0-19) will continue to increase in size, but not as rapidly as the elderly population. It will grow about as fast as overall population, thereby becoming a more stable segment than in recent history. In 1980, persons aged 0 to 19 numbered 2,688,114, making up 27.6 percent of the total population. In 1990, there were 3,232,455 persons in this age group (25.0 percent of the population). In 2000 there will be 3,877,483 persons age 19 and younger, still representing 25 percent of the total and in 2010, this age group will number 4,213,542 and represent 23.6 percent of the total state population. A major concern will be the slow growth among those in the prime labor force age group (ages 25-59). This group increased by 1.8 million persons during the 1980's (51.3 percent) to reach a level of 5.8 million on April 1, 1990. In the future, the proportion of the total population this group represents is expected to begin falling, declining modestly from 46.1 percent of the population in 2000 to 44.7 percent by 2010 with more rapid declines after 2010.

 
Questions regarding demographic data may be referred to Kathy McCharen at (850)487-8273 or by e-mail: mccharen.kathy@leg.state.fl.us

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