America’s Population is a-Changin’

🇺🇸 The US saw its largest death spike in more than a century in the first year of the pandemic, according to Census Bureau data published yesterday. There were 535,000 more deaths in 2020 than the previous year, representing a 19% increase.

• Half of states saw more deaths than births, a phenomenon called "natural decrease." Per the Census Bureau, this trend was particularly clear in the Northeast and the South.
• The data also show that Americans left the country's most-populous cities in droves (☝️), with NYC, LA, Chicago and San Francisco losing a combined 700,000 people from July 2020 to July 2021.
• On the flip side, nearly three out of five US counties (58%) experienced population growth over that same period, driven largely by some rural areas and smaller cities like Boise, ID, and Myrtle Beach, SC.

📸 The big picture: The world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century for the first time in modern history, due in large part to falling global fertility rates, according to a Pew Research analysis of UN data.

• Birth rates are falling in many European countries, the US and China. More than half of the global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa – and by 2100, the continent is projected to host five of the world’s 10 largest countries.

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