Daily News | 4 takeaways from new census data on population change in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Pennsylvania, the country’s fifth-most-populous state, lost about 40,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, according to new Census Bureau data. Its neighbor New Jersey lost about 6,000 residents in the same period.experienced a modest 0.4% increase in population, largely driven by international migration that picked up after having plummeted at the start of the coronavirus
For the past decade, births have been steadily declining in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but both states saw a bump in births between July 2021 and July 2022, according to the latest census numbers. more than 1 million people to the U.S. population and eclipsed the country’s positive natural change of about 245,000 people. That brought the country’s population close to 333.3 million people,Pennsylvania saw almost 27,000 international immigrants added to its population, but the newcomers could not make up for the roughly 40,000 people who left for other states.
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