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this USA Population growth will slow significantly in 2025, a trend partly attributed to Donald Trump’s policies immigration policyaccording to new estimates U.S. Census Bureau. The country’s population reached 341.8 million, but the growth rate plummeted to 0.5%.
That figure is down sharply from nearly 1% growth in 2024, the highest growth since 2001, driven largely by migrant. Last year’s estimated U.S. population was 340 million.
Immigration has fallen sharply, with an increase of 1.3 million last year, compared with 2.8 million in 2024. However, the census report does not distinguish between legal and undocumented immigrants.
Historically, the lowest growth rate in the past 125 years occurred in 2021, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. During this period, the U.S. population grew by just 0.16%, or 522,000 people, with immigrants contributing just 376,000 due to strict travel restrictions.
Before that, the lowest growth rate was just under 0.5% in 1919 at the height of the Spanish flu.
Last year there were 519,000 more births than deaths.
The decline in immigration has dented economic growth in several states that have traditionally attracted immigrants.
california The state’s population will drop by a net 9,500 people by 2025, a dramatic change from the previous year, when the state gained 232,000 residents, even though roughly the same number of Californians already living in the state moved out in both years.
The difference is in immigration, as net migration into the state drops from 361,000 in 2024 to 109,000 in 2025.
Florida Immigration and movement from other states has been declining year by year. The Sunshine State has become more expensive in recent years due to soaring house prices and rising home insurance costs, with just 22,000 domestic migrants in 2025 compared with 64,000 in 2024, and net migration falling from more than 411,000 to 178,000.
New York An increase of just 1,008 in 2025 is mainly due to net migration to the state falling from 207,000 to 95,600.
Tuesday’s data comes as researchers have been trying to determine the impact of the second trump card administrative department immigration crackdown After the Republican president returns to the White House in January 2025. Trump has made the surge of migrants at the southern border a central issue in his bid to win the 2024 presidential election.
The data released on Tuesday reflect changes from July 2024 to July 2025, covering the end of a presidential term Joe Biden’s The Democratic administration and the first half of Trump’s first year back in office.
The data reflect the period when Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., began ramping up enforcement, but do not reflect the impact on immigration after the Trump administration began crackdowns in Chicago; New Orleans; Memphis, Tenn.; and Minneapolis, Minn.
The 2025 figures represent a huge difference from 2024, when net international migration accounted for 84% of the 3.3 million people added to the country from the previous year. The surge in immigration two years ago was partly due to new counting methods that increased the number of people entering for humanitarian reasons.
“They do reflect recent trends that we’ve seen in terms of outmigration, which is a decrease in the number of people coming in and an increase in the number of people leaving,” Eric Jensen, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau, said last week.
Unlike the decennial census, which determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the allocation of $2.8 trillion in government funding each year, population estimates are calculated based on government records and internal Census Bureau data.
The release of the 2025 population estimates was delayed due to the federal government shutdown last fall and comes amid challenges facing the Census Bureau and other U.S. statistical agencies. The bureau, the nation’s largest statistical agency, lost about 15% of its staff last year as a result of acquisitions and layoffs as part of cost-cutting measures by the White House and its Department of Government Effectiveness.
Other recent actions by the Trump administration, such as the firing of Erika McEntarfer, director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, have raised concerns about political interference in the U.S. statistical agency. But William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, said bureau staff appeared to be “carrying on with the work as usual without interruption.”
“So I have no reason to doubt the numbers that come out,” Frey said.