The gains are mostly in births and IMMIGRATION…..
Remember….
Joe Biden , the Democrat, BEAT Donald Trump, the Republican , by SEVEN Million votes….
The pace of population growth picked up in the United States this [2022] year, driven primarily by immigration, but it remains near historically low levels, according to new estimates released on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The population as of July 1 stood at 333.3 million, up about 0.4 percent compared with 12 months earlier, the biggest single-year increase since 2019 but still one of the slowest growth rates in the nation’s history.
The nation grew by less than 0.2 percent in 2021, which was the lowest one-year increase on record.
The overall population gain was 1.26 million, of which immigration accounted for one million. That level of immigration has not been seen since Donald J. Trump was elected president.
The rest of the gain was attributed to “natural” change, the surplus of births compared with deaths. While the coronavirus pandemic continued to push the death rate above normal levels, the number of total deaths was up only slightly compared with 2021, while the number of births grew by 106,000 — the first increase in that category since 2015 and the largest since 2007.
Still, when it comes to total population growth, “I wouldn’t call it a real return to normal,” said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. With the nation’s population aging and the birthrate far from robust, “immigration is going to be a key aspect for our future growth,” he noted.
Work-from-home arrangements have made it easier for some Americans — particularly highly educated women — to balance career and family, but it is not yet clear if that will lead to a long-term increase in birthrates, said Caitlin Knowles Myers, an economist at Middlebury College and expert on fertility.
“The question is what happens next year,” she said. “Is it a return to prepandemic trends or is there some sort of structural change?”…