With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century

In this June 15, 2017, file photo, people walk inside the Oculus, the new transit station at the World Trade Center in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP

ORLANDO, Fla.—The past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths, and a slowdown of international migration, according to figures released on Dec. 30 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The U.S. grew from 2018 to 2019 by almost a half percent, or about 1.5 million people, with the population standing at 328 million this year, according to population estimates.