China News Service, December 23. According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) report, the population estimation data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on the 22nd showed that from 2019 to 2020, the U.S. population growth rate was the lowest in at least 120 years.
Demographers say that this trend gives a glimpse of the losses caused by the new crown epidemic.
Data map: On December 17, local time, people visited the snow scene in Central Park, New York, USA.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
According to reports, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that from July 2019 to July 2020, the U.S. population increased by 0.35%, an increase of 1.1 million people.
The population of the United States in July 2020 is estimated to exceed 329 million.
From 2019 to 2020, the population of the northeastern and midwestern regions of the United States declined slightly, while the population of the southern and western regions increased slightly.
William Frey, a senior researcher on the Urban Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, said that in recent years, due to immigration restrictions and declining fertility rates, the population growth of the United States has stagnated, and deaths related to the new coronavirus have exacerbated this. The magnitude of this growth slowdown.
According to the report, the estimated data released by the Census Bureau on the 22nd is independent of the 2020 census.
According to the report, the U.S. census data every ten years is used to determine the number of congressional seats that each state can obtain based on the population and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funds.