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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by like_any_other on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:35PM (#43708830)
I didn't notice it before, but these are not per capita numbers. In 2000, the US population was 281 million, and in 2024 it was 340 million [1]. So per capita, manufacturing went from 97.2 in 2000, to 81.5 in 2024.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

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