Comment by like_any_other

I didn't notice it before, but these are not per capita numbers. In 2000, the US population was 281 million, and in 2024 it was 340 million [1]. So per capita, manufacturing went from 97.2 in 2000, to 81.5 in 2024.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...