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Wyoming’s population has dropped for the second consecutive year, according to data released by the state’s Economic Analysis Division on Wednesday. In total, the state has lost 6,649 residents since the energy bust began in 2015.

The Cowboy State lost 5,595 residents between July 2016 and July 2017, a 1 percent drop. That is the largest decline in Wyoming since 1989 and well below neighboring states like Idaho, which experienced the largest population increase in the nation last year at 2.2 percent.

The fortunes of neighboring states like Idaho and Colorado, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, have a strong impact on whether people stay in or leave, according to Wenlin Liu, chief economist at the Economic Analysis Division. A worker in Wyoming is more likely to pack up and move to those two states, for example, than across the country.

In all, 8,300 more people left Wyoming than moved to the state over the last year, but new births meant that the total loss of population was less than that.

Wyoming’s roughly 4 percent unemployment rate is currently in line with the national average, and the mining industry has improved somewhat over the last 12 months.