Posted on 09/20/2025 11:54:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The US population is approaching a critical demographic milestone as deaths are now projected to exceed births as early as 2031, two years earlier than previously expected. This shift signals a trend toward near-zero population growth, raising concerns about the country's economic future and social support systems.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its population projections in September 2025, attributing the accelerated timing mainly to declining fertility rates and tightened immigration enforcement resulting from the Trump administration’s recent immigration policies. The Trump-era One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with its aggressive immigration crackdown, is projected to reduce immigration flows significantly, further dampening population growth.
According to the CBO, from 2026 to 2029, about 290,000 immigrants are expected to be removed from the country under this new legislation, plus an additional 30,000 departures considered voluntary. This reduction in immigrant families, historically contributing higher birth rates, coupled with a natural decrease in fertility rates, accelerates the timing when deaths surpass births.
Currently, the US population stands around 350 million and was previously expected to grow to 372 million by 2055. These new projections estimate a smaller overall population of 367 million by that year. Moreover, the working-age population is expected to shrink, posing a risk to the labor supply critical for sustained economic growth.
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Not a problem. In Syria, North Africa, Nigeria and a dozen places in Latin America, people have got kids in the pipeline to backfill the shortage. The next democrat president will greenlight their importation.
The gd labor supply will be fine. Where is the wage inflation? There is none at all. Wages flat for 30 years and they are not even keeping up with inflation.
Of course it’s declining, when you have foreigners that have invaded this country, and nutcases running free to murder as many people as they want.
The above should make Gates happy.
Oh stop! We have 334 million people in the US. Were actively trying to get rid of about 30 million of them. We are in no danger of extinction. 🙄
“””The US population is approaching a critical demographic milestone as deaths are now projected to exceed births as early as 2031,””””
Is this really a problem?
Fewer people would stop the huge increase in the price of housing.
Fewer people would mean less traffic congestion.
Fewer people would mean the population of the USA would not keep increasing to 500 million or more. Who wants an America where farmlands are converted to housing suburbs?
Government is the primary organization that wants an increasing population. That is how they pay for programs like social security.
Correct. But in 2000, there were 3.4 workers for every Social Security beneficiary. By 2024, that ratio dropped to 2.7, and it is projected to fall to just 2.3 over the next decade.
Fewer people would mean less traffic congestion.
And then we'll have to get rid of Social Security.
Faygs don’t reproduce. They recruit.
Well cheer up the baby boomers are dropping like flies so doubtful that will be a long term problem.
“Government is the primary organization that wants an increasing population. That is how they pay for programs like social security.”
Plus, the government “targets” two percent inflation. It’s
“Good for the economy.” But they only count the things they want to count. Medical costs, taxes, insurance, energy and a host of real-life costs rise too. The overall effect is ten percent per year. This is the primary reason nobody can afford a house or a new car. There are a lot of other factors but all of them, like H1B visas are a result of government policy. We have met the enemy and mostly voted it into office.
Yeah, fifty years and around 70 million abortions left a mark.
Damn those seven lawyers on Scotus to hell.
Government at all levels -- municipal to national -- run Ponzi schemes. Check your city and state to find out how much you are supposed to "owe." Then add in the amount of your "share" of the national debt you are supposed to owe, and realize that you are not conservative ENOUGH, and any RINOs and all Democrats are innumerate operators of the Ponzi schemes.
So as the nation approaches "a critical demographic milestone" sooner rather than later is a good thing. The Ponzi schemes will collapse earlier rather than later, and the opportunity to recover will come earlier rather than later.
Who'll be angry about that? All those on the debt-fueled gravy train.
Correct. Our economic system depends on an increasing population.
Get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Then we'll be okay with a declining population.
This is the dirty little secret about why they opened the border. And Europe/UK has the same problem. As does Japan.
The population is shrinking, which means the economy will also shrink. And our economies must grow just to survive.
It’s a conundrum
I am pretty sure we can make a society and an economy and a democracy that all works with a steady state population. In fact, I’m willing to bet the future of the USA on it!
The globalists view is that it’s easist, not necessarily better, to just keep growing to infinity.
As to Social Security, we each have our own accounts in the Social Security “lockbox,” don’t we?
At some point, we should reach an equilibrium where we don’t need a larger population. I’m not sure why that point isn’t right now. With the advent of AI, automation and so on it’s not like we never needed an ever expanding, workforce, and in fact, employment might be more difficult going forward because of emerging technology.
As long as we stop the Third World from pouring in and having them breed like fricking rabbits on welfare, I see no reason why we can’t just keep our population of current level levels going into the future
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