Figure 5

US-born population growth has never been lower

Annual average population growth rate by decade, total US population and US-born, 1820-2024

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Sources: American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates—Public Use Microdata Sample, 2014, 2024; Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung, “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000,” Working Paper no. 81, Population Division, Census Bureau, February 2006.

Note: "Immigrant" refers to noncitizens and naturalized citizens.