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Annual forecast prepared by UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research now projects Clark County will reach 3 million residents in 2055. 
 

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New analysis from UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research finds that 40% of Nevada employers launched after COVID-19, highlighting entrepreneurship's role in the state's recovery.

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Southern Nevada is still growing, but a new forecast suggests it will take longer than previously expected for the Las Vegas Valley to reach a major population milestone.

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Clark County’s population growth is slowing down, delaying a projected 3 million residents milestone by 10 years, according to a new population forecast from UNLV.

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UNLV’s CBER now projects the county won’t reach 3 million residents until 2055, downshifting expected growth over the next 10 years.

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Fewer people are moving to the area and the "makeup" of the population is evolving, UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research says.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research reported last year that the county would hit 3 million residents by 2045. It’s now estimated the county won’t reach that population figure until 2055, according to CBER’s 2026 Population Forecast report released Wednesday.

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According to the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research, 40% of all small businesses in the state of Nevada were created after the COVID-19 pandemic. Hispanic-owned, Black-owned, and Asian-owned small businesses were among the fastest-growing in Nevada from 2019 to 2022. Women-owned small businesses outpaced male-owned businesses by 17% during that same time period.

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Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Andrew Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…
Stephen Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) had his paper, "Does Debt  Management Matter for  REIT Returns?", with co-authors Zhilan Feng, Clarkson University, and Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ryerson University appear as the lead article in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2025. Asset and debt…
Stephen M. Miller (Business; Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella, formerly UNLV, along with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl and Mohammad Ghasemi Doudkanlou published an academic paper, "On the speed of adjustment (SOA) toward the target financial leverage ratios and its determinants: Evidence from the capital structure of the…
Stephen M. Miller (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) and Yevgeniy Teryoshin (Economics) had a paper published by Economics Letters titled "Income Inequality and Monetary Policy Regimes.” This paper reconsiders the possible effects of monetary policy on income inequality to determine whether monetary policy can indirectly…
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) presented the outlook for the Southern Nevada economy to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) published “Estimating U.S. housing price network connectedness: Evidence from dynamic Elastic Net, Lasso, and ridge vector autoregressive models" in the International Review of Economics and Finance with David Gabauer, Academy of Data Science in Finance, Vienna, Austria and…