Population Losers (2024)

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What are the top 5 states losing population? ›

According to a December release by the Census Bureau, California, Illinois and New York—along with West Virginia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and Oregon — lost population in 2023 compared to 2022. Throughout the new Census first released in 2020, all three states have shown continuously sinking population numbers.

Challenging cultural norms about what it means to be a parent may also offer solutions for young families. A more equal sharing between women and men of income-earning, household, and childcare responsibilities could encourage more young people to start families.

Governments of countries with low fertility rates are worried and see the population decline as an economic crisis. Some environmentalists, however, suggest that declining populations in high-income countries is a positive trend, since it likely leads to lower carbon emissions.

NOV. 9, 2023 — The U.S. population is projected to reach a high of nearly 370 million in 2080 before edging downward to 366 million in 2100.

South Carolina and Florida were the two fastest-growing states in the nation, growing by 1.7% and 1.6%, respectively, in 2023.

Florida is at the top of the chart, leading the pack with an impressive 1.91% population growth, which speaks to the continuing allure of southern climates and opportunities. Idaho and South Carolina follow closely behind, recording a population increase of 1.82% and 1.72% respectively.

So far the population has only decreased slightly (to 126.5 in 2020). But the decline is accelerating. By 2050, 106 million people are expected to live in Japan and by 2100 just 75 million.

Our growing population

The world's population is expected to increase by nearly 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from the current 8 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 10.4 billion in the mid-2080s.

The Japanese Government proposed the ideas of a Smart Platinum Society in 2015, referred as an “age-free society” which encourages its citizens to live a fruitful “hundred-year life. ” Japan also has a vision for its future coined as Society 5.0, where older persons are not considered senior citizens but are encouraged ...

The total population of mainland China was 1.409 billion at the end of last year, the National Statistics Bureau said, down more than 2 million from 2022. That compares with a decline of 850,000 from 2021 to 2022, China's first population decline in six decades.

Is world population decreasing? ›

The rate of growth peaked decades ago in the 1960s and has been declining since and is projected to continue declining.

Experts have pointed to Japan's high cost of living, stagnant economy and wages, limited space, and the country's demanding work culture as reasons fewer people are opting to date or marry. Japanese people's “willingness to form a family … has declined considerably,” according to a 2022 survey by the IPSS.

Other possible negative impacts of a declining population are: A rise in the dependency ratio which would increase the economic pressure on the workforce. A loss of culture and the diminishment of trust among citizens. A crisis in end-of-life care for the elderly because there are insufficient caregivers for them.

Wyoming is the least populated state in the U.S. According to the 2020 census, Wyoming has a population of 576,851 people. Since the 2010 census, the state had a population change of 2.3%.

According to a December release by the Census Bureau, California, Illinois and New York - along with West Virginia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and Oregon - lost population in 2023 compared to 2022.

The states that lost the most population were New York, down around 100,000, and California, which lost 75,000. "Most of the growth or decline in all the states is due to domestic migration, people moving from/to other states.

New York and California were the top two states that had the highest number of people moving out as a share of their total number of movers.