Century of Population Growth Minnesota

Abstract

THE STUDY OF POPULATION trends is an important factor in future planning. Whether the programs are economic or social, and whether they are local, state-wide, or national, they require a knowledge of the number of people in relation to a given area. For instance, the effect of the rapid increase in the populatiol’l on land values in the nineteenth century is well known to most Americans. Fortunes were made from the un earned increment in values simply because of the increase in the number of people and, therefore, in the demand for land.