The harvest rates for deer here in Wisconsin are very similar to the chart posted by Jeb Stuart. The estimated population mirrors it too. When I was a kid, there were very few deer in the southern farmland area of the state. Farmers around here went North to hunt, because there were no deer. Now they can't shoot enough of them. Used to be it took 4 hunters together to get a group antlerless tag and then you were lucky to get one every other year. This year the stae gave me 8 free ones and I could buy as many as I wanted more, over the counter. Deer have adjusted and have acclimated themselves towards humans and their Ag crops. Where once two harsh winters in a row would decimate the herd, deer are so fat going into fall from Ag crops that hard winters mean nuttin, even to bucks that ran off all their fat during rut. No more of coming upon 30-40 dead deer in a deer yard, bellies full of pine needles while they starved to death. Deer just go to the nearest house up north now and get fed "deer corn".
Enforcement of game laws and better understanding of deer management have gone a long ways too. Since deer and hunting are such a money maker for the state, the state is making sure there are plenty of them. Deer are and always have been a "fringe" animal. Back before Columbus and the country was covered with forests, there wasn't near the "fringe" there is now. More fringe, more deer.