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Population pyramid of the United States in 2023. In recent decades, the fertility rate of the United States has declined below replacement level, prompting projections of an aging population and workforce, [1] [2] as is already happening elsewhere in the developed world and some developing countries. [3]
Slower population growth has been the norm in the United States for some years, owing to lower fertility and net international migration, as well as rising mortality from an aging population. [92] To put it another way, since the mid-2010s, births and net international migration have been dropping while deaths have risen.
The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...
Americans are living longer than they did in 1965, when Medicare was established. Back then, average U.S. life expectancy was about 70; today it’s about 77 and a half—down slightly from a pre ...
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by median age in 2020. [note 1] The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups, one younger than that age and the other older than that age. It is the only index associated with the age distribution of a population.
Maine and Florida are home to a large population of baby boomers and both rank among the top 5 states in the US with the oldest -population.
It is the only index associated with the age distribution of a population. [ 1 ] Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 18 or less in most Least Developed countries to 40 or more in most European countries, Canada , Cuba , Hong Kong , Japan , South Korea , Taiwan , and Thailand .
The 2022 projections from the United Nations Population Division (chart #1) show that annual world population growth peaked at 2.3% per year in 1963, has since dropped to 0.9% in 2023, equivalent to about 74 million people each year, and could drop even further to minus 0.1% by 2100. [5]