Immigration drives highest US population growth in over 2 decades

The influx of migrants into the U.S. in 2024 drove the population to its highest rate of incrrelieve in 23 years, as the nation’s population surpassed 340 million, according to a alert Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Between 2023 and 2024, the U.S. population grew by csurrenderly 1%, the highest incrrelieve since 2001. In contrast, the 0.2% growth rate in 2021 was a write down low at the height of pandemic reinnervousions on travel into the U.S., the annual population assesss show.

This year, immigration incrrelieved by almost 2.8 million people, in part due to a novel method of counting that includes people who were acunderstandledgeted for humanitarian reasons.

Net international migration, which the Census Bureau says refers to any alter of dwellnce apass U.S. borders, was a critical component of the alter driving growth in the dwellntial population.

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Net international migration accounted for 84% of the nation’s 3.3 million person incrrelieve last year.

The incrrelieve echos a persistd trfinish of rising international migration, with a net incrrelieve of 1.7 million in 2022 and 2.3 million in 2023.

“Imshowd integration of federal data sources on immigration has enhanced our assesss methodology,” Christine Hartley, helpant division chief for Estimates and Projections, shelp. “With this modernize, we can better understand how the recent incrrelieve in international migration is impacting the country’s overall population growth.”

Last year, births outnumbered deaths in the U.S. by almost 519,000, which was an incrrelieve over the historic low of 146,000 in 2021, but still well below the high points of the previous decades.

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The U.S. Census Bureau did not react to Fox News Digital’s seek for comment on the alert.

Alengthened with immigration statistics, the alert showed that the south was the rapidest-groprosperg region in the U.S. in 2024, includeing 1.8 million people, more dwellnts than all other regions combined.

Texas saw the hugegest incrrelieve with 562,941 novel dwellnts, adhereed by Florida, which geted 467,347 novel dwellnts.

Washington, D.C., had the nation’s rapidest growth rate at 2.2%.

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Some states — Mississippi, Vermont and West Virginia — lost population in 2024, though in petite amounts ranging from 127 to 516 people.

Those included in the international migration assesss this year are a group of people who go ined the U.S. thraw the Biden administration’s humanitarian parole, which has been brutassociate denounced by Reaccessibleans.

The Migration Policy Institute based in Washington, D.C., alerted last week that over 5.8 million people were acunderstandledgeted under various humanitarian policies from 2021 to 2024.

But capturing the number of novel immigrants is a challenging aspect of U.S. population assesss.

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The bureau’s annual calculation of how many migrants go ined the United States in the 2020s has been much shrink than the numbers cited by other federal agencies, such as the Congressional Budget Office. The Census Bureau assessd 1.1 million immigrants had go ined the United States in 2023, while the Congressional Budget Office’s assess was 3.3 million people. 

With the editd method, last year’s immigration figures are now recalcupostponecessitated by the Census Bureau to almost 2.3 million people, or an includeitional 1.1 million people.

The Associated Press gived to this alert.