Between 2020 and 2021, the US population grew by 393,000 people. That’s one of the lowest single-year population increases on record. By comparison, between 2014 and 2015, the US grew by 2.4 million residents, six times higher than last year’s increase.

While COVID-19 related deaths had an impact on those lower numbers, decreasing birth rates also played a role.

With natural population growth down in recent years, immigration is a bigger factor in the growth of the country. Last year, immigration accounted for 62% of all population growth, even though immigration numbers were lower due to the pandemic.



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Some of the fastest-growing counties in the US attributed half or more of their population growth to increases in foreign-born population. Of the 43 counties that gained more than 100,000 in population from 2010 to 2019, seven had more than half of their growth come from immigrants. About 86% of the 211,000 new residents in Florida’s Miami-Dade County were foreign-born, the highest among those fast-growing counties.

Native-born population decreased by 10,000 or more in 33 counties from 2010 to 2019. Those decreases were offset by increases in foreign-born population in 24 of those counties.

How does this affect the workforce?
The US relies on population growth to help fuel the economy, specifically the job market.

Between 2005 and 2021, the labor force — people 16 and older employed or looking for employment — increased by 11.9 million. Slightly more than half of that growth came from the foreign-born population. Even with those increases the foreign-born labor force (28 million) remains much smaller than the native-born (133 million).



Deaths outpaced births in half of all states, meaning those states had a negative natural population change. Florida had the biggest decrease, with 45,000 more deaths than births. During the same year, international migration added population to every state, from just over 100 new immigrants moving to Wyoming, to 38,600 new immigrants in Florida.

Some recent developments could impact immigration growth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is lifting restrictions on migrants from crossing land borders due to COVID-19. In March 2022, there was a State Department backlog of 437,000 people waiting to schedule visa interviews. That backlog, about the size of Miami’s total population, is more than six times higher than the average monthly waitlist in 2019.

Learn more about immigration and border security or about our changing population, including demographic changes in age, race, and ethnicity.



link: https://usafacts.org/articles/...jxme2wcmtbmm4geyzvgm

ZSMICHAEL, while I appreciate the attempt at sharing, I hope you can recognize that articles like this containing lots of images, complex charts, and interactive graphs become completely unintelligible when you simply "highlight all, copy, paste" into a forum post.

All you've managed to do is copy all the text of the various charts' outer axes, without any of the interactive internal content, imagery, graph points, or other important positional context. And thus, 75% of your post is just meaningless word salad.

In these situations, it'd be better to merely provide a link to the complete article, along with perhaps a brief synopsis, and your own commentary.

Edit: Thank you for cleaning it up a bit. Now folks can at least make sense of the basic text of the article.

Subjectively speaking I cannot dispute the claim that Florida is one of the top three states hosting undocumented guests.

I don't like not discriminating between legal and illegal immigration. The former should be analyzed while the latter simply needs to be deported or stopped at the border.

Years ago when in Dallas I emailed Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jon Cornyn and told them if I had wanted to move to Mexico I would have and felt like I had been, de facto, without my consent.