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Puerto Rico's resident population was 3,285,874, down 11.8% from 3,725,789 in the 2010 Census.

Is there any explanation for this?

Massively devastating natural events + crappy economy + local governmental corruption + freedom of movement into the US = a lot of people leaving.

Honestly, the fact that even more people don't flee that island for mainland US is a testament to the importance people place on their "homeland".

Hurricane Maria in 2017 must be partially responsible?

Property damage (estimated at $90B) and loss of economic opportunity surely forced many people to move to the mainland.

Everyone is pointing to Hurricane Maria, which is a big factor, but even before that there was a major financial crisis creating substantial misery.

Hurricane Maria was pretty devastating and the lack of Federal aid exacerbated it. I imagine people left after that.

Another one of Trump's short sighted policy backfires. In his effort to paint Puerto Rico as a failed and corrupt liberal state, he denied them aid, causing half a million American citizens to move from a place where they couldn't vote in federal elections to places where they could.

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