Covid 19 coronavirus: US population rising slowest in 120 years

The U.S. population grew at the smallest rate in at least 120 years between 2019 and 2020, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, a trend that demographers say gives an idea of ​​the number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic.

Population growth in the U.S. has already stalled in recent years due to immigration restrictions and a drop in fertility, but coronavirus-related deaths exacerbated that lethargic growth trend, said William Frey, researcher. Principal of the Brooking Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.

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“I think it’s a first look at where we are going in terms of low population growth,” Frey said.

“He is telling them that this is having an impact on the population.”

The U.S. population grew by 0.35 percent between July 2019 and July 2020, an increase of 1.1 million people in a nation whose July estimated population was more than 329 million residents, according to Census Bureau estimates.

An analysis of Frey shows that it is the smallest increase of this century and also smaller than any other of the last century. At the height of the Spanish flu, the growth rate from 1918 to 1919 was 0.49%, even with American troops abroad during World War I.

The estimates released Tuesday were made independently of the 2020 census, which is a count of every US resident. The 2020 census figures are still being processed.

– AP