| Sumario: | Study of public innovation has focused on its implementation. While implementation of public innovations has therefore been tracked somewhat, a limited amount is known about their fate. In this essay, for the first time, a demography of a public innovation population, implemented 1971-82 and tracked to 2021, is developed. The demography tracks all 183 Government of Saskatchewan (GoS), Canada innovations, a large population for a rare event. A baseline public innovation demography is thereby established. After 50 years, 32.2 percent of the innovations survived, 67.8 percent had been terminated. Policy and administrative innovations had different termination rates after both 30 and 50 years but they were both lower. Innovation demography results are compared to normal policy and organizational population demography. After 30 years, policy innovation and normal (all USA, one population) program termination rates were still different (innovation rates higher). After 50 years, administrative (management) innovations and normal organizations (ten organizational populations) had the same demographics. After 50 years, the policy innovation termination rate was 69.2%, 1.38%/year, while the administrative innovation termination rate was 50%, 1%/year. After 50 years, the innovations' termination rates may have become normal.
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