‘Awesome’: US population grows at a slower pace than in 2021 | Coronavirus pandemic News

The U.S. population was growing slower than any year in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The U.S. population grew by about 393,000 in 2021, a record low of 0.1%, according to new estimates released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday.

It is the slowest growth rate since 1900 and slower than the lowest in the flu pandemic and World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, said Luke Rogers, chief of the Census Bureau’s population estimates.

“The slow growth rate can be attributed to a reduction in net international migration, reduced fertility and an increase in the death rate, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the office said.

William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, said the data “tells us [coronavirus] the pandemic has had a profound effect on us in every way, and now demographics. ”

The census data released in September showed that US poverty rate It rose from a 60-year low in 2020 to the loss of millions of jobs as a result of economic stagnation associated with coronavirus. At the same time, it has been the United States increasingly diverse as the white population dwindles.

Population estimates are based on estimates of U.S. births, deaths, and migrations. There has been an increase in population downward trend In the U.S., since 2016, fertility and migration have declined, and mortality has increased among the aging population.

The new Census Bureau estimates that births were more than 148,000 deaths, the lowest spread in more than 80 years, according to demographers.

Meanwhile, the U.S. has recorded the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths in the world, with more than 800,000 deaths so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

At the same time, the net migration of nearly 245,000 people from other countries to the U.S. was lower than in previous years, following a downward trend.

New Hampshire University demographer Kenneth Johnson said the decline in U.S. growth was “tremendous.”

“Of course, most of this is COVID, but not all of it,” Johnson told The Associated Press. “Natural growth in the U.S. was already declining before COVID, the fertility rate set a new record every year, and deaths were steadily rising as the population grew,” he said.

As of April 1, 2020, the nation’s total population has risen from 331.4 million to 331.8 million, according to the office’s estimates.

Although overall population growth was declining, some areas of the U.S. experienced higher population growth and others experienced declines, mainly through domestic movements.

Between 2020 and 2021, 33 states increased their population, and 17 states and Washington DC, the nation’s capital, lost population.

The western mountain states of the U.S. saw the highest year-over-year growth, with Idaho growing by nearly 3 percent, and Utah and Montana each growing by 1.7 percent.

Washington, DC, lost 2.9 percent of its population, New York lost 1.6 percent, and Illinois lost 1.6 percent.