Puerto Rico Population Seen Falling More Than Half This Century
- U.S. Virgin Islands also projected to suffer major loss
- Projections on population trends published by the U.N.
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Hurricane Maria pummeled impoverished Puerto Rico in September 2017 with death and destruction. An even greater economic loss could lie ahead.
U.N. projections on global population trends see the number of people living in the U.S. territory falling by more than half by the end of the 21st Century -- just 1.2 million versus about 3 million today.