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The Amish Voice 12
By Lydia
The statistics above were collected from “Amish Population Profile 2014.” Young Center for Anabaptist and
Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College.
http://www2.etown.edu/amishstudies/Population_Profile_2014.asp.Population.
The estimated population of the Amish of North America (adults and children) as of May 1, 2014, is 290,100. This is an
increase of approximately 8,400 since 2013, a growth rate of 3 percent.
Big Three States.
Historically, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana have claimed about two-thirds of the North American Amish population.
That trend continues this year: 64 percent of the total Amish population lives in those three states.
As of September, we have recorded 71 car/buggy accidents for 2014