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Question: What was the population growth of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area between 2005 and 2025?

  • 2005: 12,923,547
  • 2010: 12,828,837 (-0.73%)
  • 2015: 13,340,068 (+3.99%)
  • 2020: 13,200,998 (-1.04%)
  • 2025: 12,870,000 (-2.51%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Bonus question: Which university in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area has the largest undergraduate population?

Answer: University of California, Los Angeles – with an undergraduate population of 33,000 students.

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Question: Which five Amecian stateshad the highest Total fertility rate in 2024?

Via the List of U.S. states and territories by fertility rate by way of Wikipedia:

  1. South Dakota (2.00)
  2. Nebraska (1.91)
  3. North Dakota (1.85)
  4. Alaska (1.83)
  5. Louisiana (1.83)

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of a state’s population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime.   :::

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2015?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. France

In the half decade between 2010 and 2015, the list of the world’s four largest economies as measured by nominal GDP in $US remained unchanged in either composition or sequence. The one change to this list was the identity of the world’s fifth largest economy, with the United Kingdom replacing France as estimated by the International Monetary Fund.

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