The Changing U.S. Farm Population

Vera J. Banks and Judith Z. Kalbacher

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1980, vol. 02 RDP, issue 2

Abstract: The U.S. farm population, unlike our growing urban and rural nonfarm populations, has declined almost continuously since early in this century. Today, only 8 million or 4 percent of the Nation's 218 million people are farm residents. When first counted in the 1920 census, the 32 million farm people accounted for nearly a third of the total population of 106 million.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310121

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