The U.S. Census released a population figure for Puerto Rico that revealed the Puerto Rico Oversight Board’s population assumption to be too pessimistic. On Tuesday the Census Bureau reported Puerto ...

When Puerto Rico became a colony of the US in 1898, much of its population was living in poverty. The US government and Puerto Rico's appointed government instituted an economic development strategy ...

The U.S. Census said its Puerto Rico population count in the 2020 census was 5.7% too high, based on a "post-enumeration survey," but analysts saw good and bad in the revised count. The follow-up ...

Puerto Rico's population fell 11.8 percent to 3.3 million over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday. The population loss was part of the bureau's announcement of the latest data ...

Puerto Rico's economic crisis has forced residents to leave the troubled island for greener pastures in the U.S. mainland in numbers unseen since the Great Migration after World War II. Census data ...

PUERTO RICO'S valiant struggle to industrialize throws significant light on the relation of population to social change. Thirteen years ago the situation there looked hopeless. With nearly 2,000,000 ...

San Juan, Mar 31 (EFE).San Juan, Mar 31 (EFE). — The population of Puerto Rico declined by almost 7 percent over the past five years to 3.4 million, a trend that is predicted to continue in the near ...

As we know Puerto Rico has entered into something akin to bankruptcy over those towering debts that they cannot repay. And it's a basic truism about debts that cannot be repaid that they will not be ...

Reporting from San Juan, Puerto Rico — New Census Bureau data show Puerto Rico lost nearly 4% of its population after Hurricane Maria — the greatest population drop in the recorded history of the ...