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Title: The US Population Could Shrink in 2025, For the First Time Ever
Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1242...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The United States is on the precipice of
a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be
the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks. The
math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase
(births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last
year, births outnumbered deaths by 519,000 people. That means any decline in
net immigration in excess of half a million could push the U.S. into
population decline. A recent analysis of Census data by the Pew Research
Center found that between January and June, the US foreign-born population
fell for the first time in decades by more than one million. While some
economists have questioned the report, a separate analysis by the American
Enterprise Institute predicted that net migration in 2025 could be as low as
negative 525,000. In either case, annual population growth this year could
easily turn negative.
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