14: The Great Plains and Canadian Prairie

Population:

Historically, the Great Plains Native American population was thinly scattered and nomadic. However in the 1870s the population in Nebraska more than tripled to almost half a million and in the 1880s when population in Kansas reached a million. Every Great Plains state grew during the late nineteenth century but lost population since 1920. In 1960 the total population of Hawaii’s islands was 633,000, which more than doubled to 1,380,301 in 2010. Today there are perhaps 80,000 pure Native Hawaiians.

 

Economy:

The Great Plains economy revolves around agricultural production. The Great Plains and Canadian Prairie are major hinterlands for their respective countries. The primary economy of this region is essential for both countries, and yet it is often unsustainable. Primary sector industries are the economic building blocks of both countries. 
While in the Great Plains economy revolves around agricultural productions, In Hawaii the economy revolves around Tourism. Pineapple and sugar agriculture were the state’s leading economic activities from 1880 until 1959.By then Agricultural economy had transformed into tourism economy. Tourism grew exponentially on the islands until it became the leading economic activity.