It has lost 13,000 residents in the last five years, leaving its population at 1.466 million.

Essex County, for example, lost 73,098 residents, or 8.6 percent of its total population, over the last 10 years.

Connecticut, with 3.3 million people, has actually lost 12,454 residents, the estimates show.

In New Jersey, officials first feared that the state might have lost 1,500 residents, or even more.

If the 55-to-45 ratio were imposed, he said, New York might still lose some 2,000 residents, at a cost of $375 million a year.

Between 1970 and 1980, the city lost more than 800,000 residents, but the needs of the poor for shelter became dire.

Butte lost more than 50,000 residents in the last 50 years; its population is now 36,000.

Meanwhile, during the same decade, the city lost 60,000 white residents, a 20% decline.

Between 1995 and 2006, it lost more than 14,000 residents, a decrease of 9%.

The population has been in decline since the first census in 1996, losing almost 500 residents.