Utah’s population is set to grow by 2 million people by 2065, according to a new study out of the University of Utah. That's a jump of nearly 56% from 3.6 million people now to an projected 5.6 million.

Wyoming’s population, by contrast, will grow significantly slower than that.

At the current pace of 0.4% growth seen each of the last three years, as reported by the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division, it will take the lowest populated state in the nation 170 years to hit 1 million, or not until the year 2195.

Researchers with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released the latest iteration of its long-term planning projections for the s tate of Utah. The projections, which the institute does every four years, took 15 months of development and review to complete.

According to their

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