U.S. population shifts over the past several decades have been recorded by the Census. Here are a couple of maps that show two versions, one a snapshot between the two most recent censuses, and one combining most of two census time periods:
2010–2019
2000–2018
I had just seen a map like this and was thinking about the growth of population in Idaho, with its 14% growth in the 2010s and 36% growth from 2000–2018, when I saw this story about the loss of obstetric care-givers in that state.
The gist is that 22% of practicing OB-GYNs have left Idaho since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, including 55% of the high-risk practitioners. There are only five high-risk practitioners left in the state. Five.
After all that population growth, Idaho had just shy of 2 million people in 2023. According to the Census, about half of those people are female, and they don't all appear to be beyond child-bearing years.
This seems very bad.
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