By choosing to eat foods that fight inflammation, along with the other treatment options recommended by my doctor, the pain and inflammation from my rheumatoid arthritis has been brought under control. Making dietary changes to control inflammation does not have to mean eating a bland and boring diet.
Even so, the number of people added to the stateâs population has been substantialâabout 275,000 new. residents each year. The California Department of Financeâs most recent estimate, made in January 2015, places the. stateâs population at 38.7 million. California will continue to gain millions of new residents in each of the next two decades, increasing demand in all areas.
California's Rapid Population Growth Slows. In 1994, California's population reached 32 million, representing 12.6 percent of the nation. By comparison, California had a population of 21 million in 1974, or 9.9 percent of the nation. Thus, over the past 20 years, California's population has grown by 11 million people, or over 50 percent.