Economic crisis slows U.S. population growth

The U.S. citizenry is growing at the slowest amount back the Great Depression afterwards two decades of able-bodied increases.For two after years back 2009, the citizenry has developed aloof 0.7% a year, bottomward from anniversary increases about 1% in antecedent years and the everyman back the backward 1930s. The U.S. acquired 2.2 actor bodies from 2010 to 2011 — beneath than the 2.8 actor added a decade beforehand — extensive a absolute of 311.6 million.The government says the recession concluded in June 2009. Although the abridgement has improved, the downturn's aftereffect on bearing and clearing lingers. The cardinal of babies built-in from July 1, 2010, to July 2011 alone 200,000 from the aforementioned aeon in 2008-09. The cardinal of added immigrants fell 150,000.It's an indicator of an ailing economy," Haub says. "People are acutely still dabbling births, and clearing has connected to bead because job opportunities are not there.The U.S. abundance amount — which has been abutting to the backup akin of 2.1 accouchement per woman in adverse to abounding developed nations that are able-bodied beneath that akin — now is estimated to accept collapsed to 1.9, says demographer Joseph Chamie, above administrator of the United Nations Citizenry Division and added afresh analysis administrator at the Center for Migration Studies.