Immigration decline & slowing population growth likely to impact congressional maps

Описание: There has been an alarming shift in how many people are living in the United States. A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the most recent numbers reflect the slowest growth rate ever in this country, aside from in 2021, when Covid-19 caused deaths to rise rapidly.
“The slowdown in U.S. population growth is largely due to a historic decline in net international migration, which dropped from 2.7 million to 1.3 million in the period from July 2024 through June 2025,” said Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for Estimates and Projections at the Census Bureau.

While births and deaths have remained steady, the changes are widespread.

“Now that the population is older and fertility rates have gone down, most of the growth of the U.S. population comes from immigration, so if immigration slows down, the population is not growing as fast," said Jed Kolko, a Senior Fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Kolko previously served as the Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce, where part of his role was overseeing the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis.


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