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USA Today reports that the US Census Bureau has released population estimates for 2008.
Since 2000, the fastest-growing states in the US have been Utah, Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, and Colorado.
Other Notes:

The only two states to lose population were Michigan and Rhode Island. Michigan’s population declined 0.5 percent (46,000), while Rhode Island’s fell 0.2 percent (2,000).
California [...]

I happened across this great map showing the distributions of the world’s religions. As one would expect, Christianity dominates the Americas, Europe, Northern Asia and Australia, while Islam dominates the Middle East and Northern Africa. Hinduism is big in India, and surprise surprse, the generic term “Chinese Religions” is most popular in, of [...]