[DannyTN]

The US death rate was up 17% in 2020.

So are we having fewer births? And did people avoid pregnancy for fear of hospitals during the pandemic? Or did lockdowns produce a baby boom? How does immigration play into this?

Birth rate has been going down. (through 2019)

But I only see the slightest drop in growth rate through Nov 2021.

Employment to working age population through Nov 2021

[kabar]

Immigrants, legal and illegal, and their American born children account for 80% of our population growth rate. Demography is destiny.