The U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Net international migration — the number of people moving into the U.S. minus the number of people leaving — was more than 1 million residents from 2021 to 2022. That represented a growth rate of 168% over the previous year’s 376,029 international migrants, according to the vintage 2022 population estimates.
Natural growth — the number of births minus the number of deaths — added another 245,080 people to the total in what was the first year-over-year increase in total births since 2007.
This year’s U.S. annual growth rate of 0.4% was a rebound of sorts from the 0.1% growth rate during the worst of the pandemic from 2020 to 2021, which was the lowest since the nation’s founding.
(AP)
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For the United States economy (and political power) to keep growing, the population has to keep growing. While we (the frum Yidden) and a handful of other ethnic/religious groups (e.g. Mormons) are doing our share, most of the rest of the Americans, have been utter failures when it comes to having children and this has been so for several generations. The obvious, and only realistic, solution is to round up the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (and get rich as well) and get them to work. Perhaps they should move the “Immigration and Naturalization Service” to the Labor Department or Commerce Department.
The alternative is to end up as a “has been” (such as Russia), whose low birth rate and hostility to immigrants is turning them into the laughing stock of the world.