The population of the United States grew by 1% to 340.1 million in 2024, according to the US Census Bureau, marking the largest population increase since 2000. The nation has added nearly 58 million over that 24-year period, but there certainly has not been a baby boom.
The birthrate in America has been declining for decades. As of November 2024, 3.31 million newborns were born on US soil. The overall birthrate declined 0.12% from 2023 to 12 births per 1000 people. There were around 3.05 million deaths in the US last year, with the average life expectancy reaching 75.8 years for men and 81.1 years for women. It is true that the population would have remained relatively stagnant if not for new immigrants. People are living longer, but there has not been a notable increase in recent years.
However, the population rise is due to ILLEGAL migration. About 1.2 million people legally immigrated to America in 2024. Around 756,000 immigrants were granted family-sponsored green cards, 197,000 received employment visas, and 67,000 received diversity visas.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported 3 million inadmissible encounters last year, marking a 50% increase from 2021 at the beginning of Joe Biden’s term. Around 1.45 million encounters occurred at an entry point in 2024. Estimates state there were 2 million “known gotaways” who snuck into the US illegally but the true figure cannot be calculated. No one can calculate exactly how many people entered the nation under Biden’s open border catastrophe but there have been around 11 million encounters at the border if that is of any indication.
The large Baby Boomer generation is aging, and fertility rates are declining. The United States has always been a melting pot of migrants from throughout the world. However, the dynamic has shifted in recent years as there are far more illegal, unvetted migrants arriving in the US who cannot legally work and are draining our economic resources while expanding the welfare state. The composition of the United States will be far different from what it is today if this trend continues.
