Jordan King in Newsweek:
The U.S. population will age and continue to see low growth in 2025, three experts have told Newsweek.
Population decline is an issue for many countries around the world, especially in Europe, and, while the U.S. is not technically one of them, its growth is slow. Last year, the population only increased by 0.5 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. While this is the most significant uptick since the Covid pandemic, “national population growth is still historically low,” the Bureau concluded, and 2025 is not expected to be much different, experts said.
“Next year will be much like this year, but with slightly more moderation from the recent pandemic disruptions,” Dowell Myers, a professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California, told Newsweek. “We know all the residents will be one year older—baby boomers moving deeper into retirement and still holding on to their houses, while most of the millennials spill across the 30-year age threshold, after which fertility can’t be delayed much further and when intentions for homeownership are strengthening even more.”
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