MEXICO CITY - Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than death since 2000, according to a government report released Thursday.
Mexico's demographics agency found that an average of 577,000 people migrated to the U.S. each year between 2000-2005, compared to 495,000 deaths a year in the same period. In 2006, 559,000 migrated and there were 501,000 deaths.
Mexico had 104.9 million residents as of last year, an increase of 6.4 million since 2000.
Immigration to the U.S. has increased drastically since 1970, when 800,000 Mexicans lived north of the border. Today, there are about …
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