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         Census Bureau Releases 1999 State and County Population
            Estimates by Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin
                                
  The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released annual estimates,
from 1990 to 1999, of the population by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin
for 50 states, the District of Columbia and 3,141 counties.
  
  The population estimates use the 1990 census as their base along with
estimates of births, deaths and net migration for the 1990-1999 period.
The population estimates are not Census 2000 results, which will be
released beginning in late December.

  The data for states and counties include estimates of the population by
single years of age (to 85 and over), sex, race (White, Black, American
Indian and Alaska Native, and Asian and Pacific Islander) and Hispanic
origin. Additional tables show rankings of population by race and Hispanic
origin for states and counties in 1999.

  The state data tables include: 

   - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of State Population Estimates, by
     Race and Hispanic Origin;

   - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of State Population Estimates, by
     Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin; and
  
   - 1999 State Population Estimates, Ranked by Race and Hispanic-Origin.

  The county data tables include: 

    - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of County Population Estimates, by
      Age and Sex;
  
    - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of County Population Estimates, by
      Race and Hispanic Origin;
  
     - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of County Population Estimates, by
       Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin;
  
     - 1990 to 1999 Annual Time Series of County Population Estimates, by
       Selected Age Groups; and
  
     - 1999 County Population Estimates, Ranked by Race and Hispanic Origin.