Population: The Role Of Overpopulation In The United States

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Population is the amount of people in a specific area, but what happens when one area becomes overpopulated? The population from that area has to move out into other areas causing a growth to other areas. This growth effects the environment in the newly populated areas tremedously, which in turn effects the citizens living there. A never ending cycle between homo sapiens and the Earth, who will win is the question no one really knows. Throughout antiquity the population of the world has proliferated tremendously. According to (https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php) the world population in the nineteen eighties was around four and a half billion citizens and in the nineteen nineties the world population was just over five billion citizens. That is an increase of approximately half a billion people throughout the world. In the United States the population for the nineteen eighties was at two hundred twenty-six million five hundred thousand …show more content…
The United States can be separated into four different regions; northeastern, midwestern, western, and southern regions. These four regions can be separated into sub regions. Since two thousand twelve the highest populated region has been the southern, and the lowest populated area has been the north eastern region. According to (http://www.census.gov/popclock/) in two thousand twelve the population for the southern region was 117,299,171 citizens and in two thousand sixteen the population was 122,319,574 citizens. A growth of 5,020,403 people in five years, an average of 1,004,080.6 citizens a year. In two thousand twelve the population for the north eastern region was 55,829,059 people and in two thousand sixteen the population for the north eastern region was 56,209,510 citizens (http://www.census.gov/popclock/). A growth of 380,451 citizens in five years, an average of 76,090.2 citizens a

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