December 21, 2021 04:00 pm
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/12/21/1545229/us-population-growth-at-lowest-rate-in-pandemics-first-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=
US Population Growth at Lowest Rate in Pandemic's First Year
Already declining US population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation's founding during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. From a report: That's because the coronavirus curtailed immigration, delayed pregnancies, and killed hundreds of thousands of US residents. Figures released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau show the US grew by only 0.1% with only an additional 392,665 added to the US population, from July 2020 to July 2021.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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