New orleans is an example of a city that experienced both a high decrease in population and a high increase in population in the span of three years. explain the factors that led to these rapid population changes.

New Orleans suffered rapid population changes as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

According to the 2010 Census, 343,829 people live in New Orleans. The last estimate of the population before Hurricane Katrina was 454,865 inhabitants, effective July 1, 2005. By the end of January 2006, only about 200,000 people lived in New Orleans, less than half of the city's population before the hurricane struck. On July 1, 2006, when the United States Census Bureau calculated a new population estimate, the state of Louisiana showed a loss of 219,563 people (-4.87%). In 2010, estimates showed that non-flooding neighborhoods were close to 100% of their population before Katrina, and in in some cases, they exceed 100% of their populations before Katrina.

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the northwest territory became the most densely populated area in the u.s.

to reform the distraught soviet union, the democratization of the communist party was promoted through party secretary mikhail gorbachev's policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.” perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the communist party.