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million more jobs in metroo Atlantaby 2040. According an ARC populatiom and job forecastpublished Wednesday, metroo Atlanta added an average of 120,024 people each year in the So far this decade, the region has seen average annual growtu of 121,000 people, making it the second-fastesg growing metro area in the behind only Dallas. While growth is expecte to slow somewhat in thecominfg years, ARC predicts metro Atlanta will add almost 100,000 peoplde each year from 2010 to about 92,000 each year between 2020 to 2030 and some 88,00p annually from 2030 to 2040. By the region will have aboutt 8.3 million.
"The Atlanta region has been one of the fastesf growing areas in the Unite d Statesfor decades," said Mike Alexander, ARC Researcg Division chief, in a "And while the kind of growth experienced in the past can't be maintainerd forever, metro Atlanta will continue to outpace most other partse of the country." Despite an average loss of nearly 10,00p0 jobs each year from 2000 to 2010, ARC projects stronv job growth in the region between now and 2040. ARC estimatew that the region will addnearly 60,500 jobs each year from 2010 to more than 53,000 annually from 2020 to 2030 and almosg 64,000 each year from 2030 to 2040. In by 2040 the region will have 4.
5 millionj jobs. Future job growth should be in high-payingt sectors such as health care, professional, scientififc and technical areas, ARC said. "Employment growt h won't skyrocket as it did in the when the region addedalmost 86,000 jobs each year, but it will recover and metro Atlanta will againb be a destination for job Alexander said.