Scratching the surface (II)
By popular demand, the full set of longer-term population trend charts for the four regions highlighted in the previous posting.
The "Rest of Newfoundland" chart in particular deserves highlighting: from 1996 to 2009, non-Avalonian Newfoundland has had a net population loss of roughly 50,000 people, with little sign of slowing down.
Labels: demographics, pretty charts
posted by WJM @ 11:06 PM
4 Comments:
IIRC, the rural Avalon numbers also show an internal change with the so-called irish loop suffering a huge decline recently while the areas around Capitol City are growing.
Numbers and graphs are one thing, but VOCM knows where to dig for the real nuggets of fact, pace Labradore, "...this positive attitude is doing more for Newfoundland and Labrador then [sic] people realize, and is probably the best thing to happen here ever." I too remember that positive, sinking feeling when I boarded the ferry to move where I could find a job.
I was trying to figure out what the vacuous can-do attitude reminded me of, and then it came to me this morning. I now know why your demographic statistics fail to match the current political reality: you forgot to include the off-world colonies, where Oceanex can ship the unemployed to a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
Rural population decrease and urban population increases. It is not only a Newfoundland phenomenon.
Yip.
Common scales! Common scales! Damnit, damnit, damnit...
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