Category: Population
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Introducing the TIGC Georgia county rankings. First up: Population
This is the first in a series of pieces ranking Georgia’s 159 counties by various measures. I’m starting with population and will follow up with rankings for various economic, educational attainment and population health metrics, possibly among others. Eventually I’ll combine all those individual rankings into what I’ll call the TIGC Power Rankings. One of…
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New record of 123 Georgia counties reported more deaths than births in 2021; statewide gap between births and deaths narrowest on record
The number of Georgia counties recording more deaths than births jumped again in 2021, due largely to a rising death toll that owed primarily to a combination of Covid-19 fatalities and lethal drug overdoses, according to data published Friday by the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). The total number of Georgia’s 159 counties reporting…