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Since 2000, Mexico has been losing more people to migration to the United States than to death, according to a report by Mexico's demographics agency released on May 3. The government study found that an average of 577,000 people migrated to the United States each year between 2000-2005, compared to 495,000 deaths per year in the same period. In 2006, it reported, 559,000 Mexicans migrated and there were 501,000 deaths.
Nevertheless, despite losing around one million people per year to death and migration, Mexico experienced a population increase of 6.4 million since 2000 and had 104.9 million residents as of last year. Migration to the United States has increased dramatically since 1970, when an estimated 800,000 Mexicans lived north of the border. The ...