The latinos accounted for about 71% of the overall population growth of USA, an increase that was mainly driven by the greater number of births in this community between 2022 and 2023, according to a Census report released last Thursday.
Latino births contributed significantly to the increase in the population of this community, which totaled 1.16 million in 2023, and represents the majority of the total increase (1.64 million) in the United States.
Latinos make up almost a fifth (19.5%) of the U.S. population, according to 2023 data, the second-largest group after non-Hispanic white Americans.
The Hispanic population “is expanding at a substantially faster rate than the non-Hispanic population, primarily due to natural increase, that is, more births than deaths”said Kristie Wilder, a Census demographer.
Researchers found that this population grew faster with 1.8% than the non-Hispanic population of the country, which increased 0.2% (just under half a million).
The slower growth of the non-Hispanic population was due to natural decline, where it experienced 217,000 more deaths than births between 2022 and 2023, the report explained.
However, the report warns that while births were the largest contribution to the growth of the Hispanic population between 2022 and 2023, with approximately 722,000 more than the number of deaths, Latino immigrants represented approximately a third of the overall net increase in the population , with just over 437,000 immigrants entering the country in that period.
And although the Hispanic population continued to grow to reach just over 65 million, its annual growth of 1.8% between 2022 and 2023 is slower than in other years such as between 2012 and 2013 when it grew by 2.0% and 3.7% between 2002 and 2003.
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Source: Gestion
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