While the nation grew by more than 13% during the past decade,according to figures just released by the U.S. Census Bureau,Arizona, along with several other warm-weather southern and westernstates grew more than twice as fast.
Arizona was No. 2 on the list of states to grow the most interms of percentage change. Arizona grew by 40% during the 1990s,second only to Nevada, which grew by 66.3%. Finishing out the topfive growing states were other western states: Colorado, 30.6%;Utah , 29.6%; and Idaho, 28.5%.
Arizona also made the list of states that grew in terms ofnumber of people. During the decade Arizona's population increasedby 1.465 million people, or about 146,500 new residents annually.The population rose from 3.665 million to more than 5.13million.
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