The U.S. population saw its slowest rate of increase since the COVID-19 pandemic, with President Donald Trump’s sealing of the border being credited with the development, the U.S. Census Bureau reported.
The U.S. population grew by 1%, 3.2 million, between July 2023 and July 2024 but decreased to a 0.5% growth rate from July 2024 to July 2025, adding just 1.8 million new people. The primary culprit was a plummet in international migration, declining 53.8% from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025.
“The slowdown in U.S. population growth is largely due to a historic decline in net international migration, which dropped from 2.7 million to 1.3 million in the period from July 2024 through June 2025,” Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for Estimates and Projections at the Census Bureau, said
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