The US population surged to a 23-year high in 2024, driven by a significant increase in immigration. The 1% growth rate marks a stark contrast to the record low of 2021.
Immigration to the United States in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The 1% growth rate this year was the highest it has been since 2001, and it was a marked contrast to the record low of 0.2% set in 2021. Immigration this year increased by 2.8 million people, partly because of counting that adds people who were admitted for humanitarian reasons.
Net international migration accounted for 84% of the nation’s 3.3 million-person increase between 2023 and 2024. Births outnumbered deaths in the United States by almost 519,000 between 2023 and 2024, which was an improvement over the historic low of 146,000 in 2021 but still well below the highs of previous decades. The group of people being included in the international migration estimates are those who enter the country through, which has been granted for seven decades by Republican and Democratic presidential administrations to people unable to use standard immigration routes because of time pressure or their government’s poor relations with the U.S. The Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based research organization, said last week that more than 5.8 million people were admitted under various humanitarian policies from 2021 to 2024. Capturing the number of new immigrants is the most difficult part of the annual U.S. population estimate
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