11.   Most American cities still have deeply blighted pockets and many are losing population overall.

12.   Now, after years of losing population, families are returning.

13.   One of the advantages of developing in New York, Ratner said, is that the city has not lost population, like his hometown of Cleveland or Detroit.

14.   Other districts have lost population and have empty classrooms.

15.   Still, some older suburbs lost population, as families aged and children moved out, leaving parents behind in two- and three-bedroom homes.

16.   The list is made up of the smaller states but includes a few larger states, like Indiana, which are losing population.

17.   They said that dividing counties was unavoidable because areas in rural northeastern North Carolina lost population.

18.   Towns along the Hartford border, like East Hartford and East Windsor, also lost population.

19.   Upstate New York lost population over the last decade, resulting in the loss of two congressional seats for the state.

20.   We have been consistently losing population for decades.