Trump’s immigration crackdown led to drop in US growth rate last year as population hit 342 million

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has contributed to a year-to-year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025.
Forbes

Economic Challenge: Dependency Rates Rise As Population Growth Falls

Birth rates have dropped faster than life expectancy has increased, causing slower population growth around the world. Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually decline after 2080. Slower population growth and even ...
RealClearScience

Falling U.S. Birth Rates Won't Lead to Population Collapse

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total fertility rate. The total fertility rate for a given ...
Yahoo

Just have more babies? The deceptively complicated problem of the U.S.'s low fertility rate.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With U.S. fertility rates at a record low, some people and politicians think that having more babies is the answer to the country's population problem. Are they right? (Getty Images ...
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Is Ohio’s population decline overrated?

Population decline in Ohio could be an indicator for deeper quality of life problems. Ohio has a high poverty rate, low bachelor’s degree attainment, and low life expectancy. That means Ohio looks more like Mississippi and West Virginia than Montana or Vermont.