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Census Bureau data show the number of foreign-born people rose by nearly a million in 2022 after years of little growth. Experts say the increase coincides with a gradual reboot of legal immigration.
Americans have never been older. The nation’s median age reached 38.9 in 2022, according to new Census data; that’s the highest it has ever been. Median age is the chronological midpoint in the U.S. population, and it has been creeping up for decades. In 2000, the median age was 35. In 1980, it was 30.…
The U.S. last year logged its slowest population growth in history, according to census data, but a new pattern is emerging within those figures: Immigration, even at reduced levels, is for the first time making up a majority of population growth.
The U.S. last year logged its slowest population growth in history, according to census data, but a new pattern is emerging within those figures: Immigration, even at reduced levels, is for the first time making up a majority of population growth.
A declining birthrate and pandemic deaths helped drive U.S. population growth to historic lows. But immigration appears to be back on the rise.