California IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : State Population Surge Sets Record

California added 793,000 residents in 1990, breaking a 47-year record for population growth, a state report says. The state Department of Finance report estimates California’s population as of Jan. 1 at 30,351,000, an increase of 512,000 since the national census last spring. The one-year increase of 793,000 breaks the record of 771,000 new residents set in 1943, during World War II. But on a percentage basis, the population boom of 1943, when California had only 8.5 million residents, was 9%, which was 3 1/2 times greater than last year.