La Altagracia is the fastest growing province In the 12 years preceding X National Population and Housing Censusand it is the only one that has been classified in the category of provinces with high growth.
According to data from the 10th National Population and Housing Census of 2022, Presented today by the National Statistics Office, La Altagracia is also the province with the highest growth in the intercensal periods 1993-2002 and 2002-2010.
“Those provinces whose growth rates could be classified as moderate growth are: San Cristóbal, Monseñor Nouel, Hato Mayor, La Romana, Dajabón, Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Macorís, San José de Ocoa, Independencia, Peravia, El Seibo, Valverde, Samaná and Monte Cristi, in descending order,” details the ONE document on page 32.
While the conglomerate of provinces with low average growth constitutes the majority group. This is made up of the provinces: Santiago Rodriguez, La Vega, Azua, Baoruco, Santiago, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Monte Plata, Pedernales, Sanchez Ramirez, Barahona, National District, Duarte, San Juan, Puerto Plata, Hermanas Mirabal, Espaillat and Elias Piña.
The report also indicates that in the period 2002-2010, a total of 10 provinces with negative growth were recorded. In the current intercensal period 2010-2022, no such phenomenon occurred, that is, no province has a lower number of people than in 2010.
“The Dominican Republic has experienced a decline in its population growth rate. The average annual growth rate between the period between the 2010 and 2022 censuses was 1.11%, while between 2002 and 2010 it was 1.21%, indicating a slowdown in growth of approximately 8.7% in about 12 years.”
The report of the magnitude of its average annual growth rate.
Population growth in the DR was reduced
The growth rate The population in the Dominican Republic has fallen by more than half in the last 30 years, from 3.61% to 1.21%, according to data from the 10th National Population and Housing Census of 2022 presented today by the National Statistics Office.
In the 1950 and 1960 censuses, the Dominican population growth rate was 3.61%. From 1960 onwards, population expansion began to slow down, with an average growth rate that fell to 2.98%.
The document shows that between 1960 and 1970 the rate was 2.76%, and between the 1970 and 1981 censuses, 2.35%. ANDThis decline continued in the following periods: between 1981 and 1993 it was 1.79%, and between 1993 and 2002 it fell even further.
“The reduction observed in previous censuses was accentuated in the intercensal period 2002-2010 and 2010-2022, when the average annual growth rate was only 1.21% in the period 2002-2010 and 1.11% in the period 2010-2022, reflecting a downward trend in the growth rate during these intercensal periods,” according to the ONE report.
The General Report of the X National Census of Population and Housing 2022 (XCNPV), on page 14, explains that the decrease in population growth during the last four decades of the 20th century and the first two of the 21st century is attributed to two concurrent phenomena.
First, after the decline of the dictatorship in the 1960s, the door was opened to emigration, initially to the United States and then to other countries in the 1970s.
Source: El Dia
