The population of California has fallen for the first time in history Coronavirus pandemic News

Governor Gavin Newsom recalls the decline in population due to COVID’s response and high taxes.

The population of California fell by more than 182,000 in 2020, the first loss in a year the most populous state in the nation.

State officials reported on Friday that the population of California fell by 0.46% to less than 39.5 million people between January 2020 and 2021.

The news comes a week after the US Census Bureau announced a slow population growth for California, due to the state loss of congressional seat for the first time in the last decade because it has grown more slowly than other states.

But census numbers reflect the state’s population in April 2020. The new state numbers released on Friday reflect the state’s population in January 2021.

California became a state in the 1850s as a result of the rapid gold rush that led people in the west to seek their fortune. The population increased after World War II with the support of strong defense and the aerospace industry. It rose again in the 1980s and 1990s when technology companies put Silicon Valley on the map.

But growth slowed after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, when the federal government cut defense spending and again in the late 2000s in the years leading up to the great recession.

State officials say more people have left California than the other three countries in the past three decades. However, this was offset by the international immigration and births, therefore, continued to grow in California.

That changed in 2020. State officials say the drop in the birth rate, the reduction in international immigration and the increase in deaths caused by coronaviruses have led to the loss of the state’s population year after year.

California experienced negative international migration in 2020, and state officials say the Trump administration was directly affected by the decision to stop issuing new visas for much of that year. Reductions in coronavirus worldwide resulted in a 29% drop in the number of international students coming to California, or about 53,000 people.

In addition, about 51,000 people died last year from coronavirus. This is up 19% from the national average death rate of the last three years. Overall, 51 of the state’s 58 counties had mortality rates above the three-year average — including 12 percent increases of 20% or more.

In a news release, the California Department of Finance said the state expects the state to have “somewhat positive annual growth” in its 2021 calendar. These numbers will be released next May.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at a news conference in Big Sur, California, as the state’s population becomes a political issue this year in an effort to remind Newsom. [File: Nic Coury/AP Photo]

The state’s population has become a political problem this year thanks to its efforts remember Governor Gavin Newsom, Republicans blamed high taxes and governor’s policies on people fleeing states.

From 2010 to 2020, about 6.1 million people left California for other states, compared to about 4.9 million people who moved from California to other states. census data Made by the California Institute of Public Policy.

The Department of the Treasury’s population calculation comes from a variety of sources, including birth and death accounts, the number of new driver’s licenses and address changes, school enrollments, and federal tax returns.