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The rough economy is taking its toll on Nevada's population.You can expect the number of people living here to keep shrinking- for at least a few more years.The state demographer predicts the Nevada will lose about 54,000 people by 2014.Two forecasting models (one with a brighter outlook on the job market than the other) reached that same conclusion.What happens after we lose those people is where the two models differ.The optimistic model has Nevada's population booming by up to 1.2 million people between the years 2015 and 2030.The pessimistic model has us growing by as little as 14,000 people in that same time.You can blame the wide gap between those predictions on all of the uncertainty over how well the tourism and construction industries will recover in the silver state.Nevada's already started shrinking as people move away to find jobs elsewhere.The report highlights the fact that Nevada lost nearly 200-thousand jobs since mid-2007.