The population of Puerto Rico was overcounted by 5.7%, or 174,000 people, when the Census Bureau conducted its 2020 count. The overcount came to light Tuesday after the bureau announced it concluded a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Census Bureau released its first wave of 2020 Census data on Monday. The newly released data show Puerto Rico lost a ninth of its population over the last decade. Earthquakes and hurricanes ...