Immigration had a meaningful impact not only nationally but also for individual states, accounting for all of the growth in 16 states that otherwise would have lost population from residents moving out-of-state or from deaths outpacing births, William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution, said in an email.
Immigration driving U.S. population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million
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A big wild card is immigration, which was responsible for most of the growth in 2022, he said.
U.S. population center trending toward South this decade
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