More than 300.000 people have left Puerto Rico in the past decade with a record of 84.000 people leaving in 2014. Puerto Ricans suffer from high rates of forced migration due to the better opportunities offered in the United States compared to in the commonwealth. The gap between emigrants and immigrants has been continuously widening. Indeed. this increase in emigrants caused a population decline. the first in its history. and the stateside Puerto Rican population grew quickly. The median age of male Puerto Ricans is of working age from the ages of 2549 and similarly for women from the ages of 2559. Most of the homes are familyled.
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