Demographics, Immigration and Future Economic Growth of the United States
Americans UPDATE (August 2025) Recent data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention show the U.S. birth rate has fallen below 1.6, the lowest rate on record. If low rates of immigration continue and deportations increase, the United States is now on the path of declining population. Reported in The Economist , "America's fertility crash reaches a new low," August 5, 2025. SUMMARY The longer-run projection is a population of about 335 million people in 2100 ( Lancet ), about the sa...