Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Commentary: Congressional Budget Office Lowers U.S. Population Projections
This week, the Congressional Budget Office once again reduced its population projections for the U.S. for 2025-2055. Last year, in its 30-year forecast, the CBO had projected that the U.S. population would be about 383 million by 2054. This week’s projection lowered the 2055 projection to 372 million, approximately a 2.8% decrease. If the CBO is correct, the U.S. population will grow by about 22 million or 6% (350 million→372 million) over the next thirty years. It will be the slowest population growth in the country’s history.The lower projection is based on the fertility rate continuing at a very low level and a slowdown in immigration.
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If Trump can get most of his agenda through the idiots in Congress I predict a massive growth of American population, not illegal criminal aliens.
ReplyDelete383 million by 2054. And 300 million will be foreign born in 3rd world countries parasites. I don't give a shit cause I won't be around to see the Soylant Green scenario.
ReplyDeleteYou got yours, fuck anything resembling a legacy, right?
DeleteIt takes 18 years to raise a child. Those of us who had the faith to have large families even when times were bad are rare. No matter what changes at this point, it will be two decades before we see results.
ReplyDeleteThe single biggest factor preventing higher birthrates is money - we need prosperity, we need to be wealthy enough to not need two incomes, or nothing else will really matter. If mom can't afford to stay home and raise her own children, she's not going to want to have more than one or at most two, if even that.
The second is culture - the fucking LIE of "zero population" needs utterly debunked. The "it's irresponsible to have children!" mantra needs thoroughly destroyed.
Fix those two things and we'll see a baby boom to put post WWII to shame. Fail to fix those things and the US will go the way of Japan.
John G.
If we don't solve the low testosterone problem in our young men soon there won't be any babies born
ReplyDeleteJD
This country was perfect when there was 175 million and people came here to assimilate.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if some of the factors not mentioned are Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna.
ReplyDeleteIn this country healthcare is unaffordable (if you even have it). Child care, if you can find it, costs an arm and a leg. A decent house where one can raise a family cost a small fortune.
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand why young people don't want to have kids...(I hope your sarcasm filter is on)
Also, anyone that has read 1/2 of an economy book understands that you need a growing population if you want a growing economy. If we want to keep growing as a country we have two options to grow our population.
Option 1: Make healthcare, childcare, education, etc more affordable so that people can afford to have a family.
Option 2: Let migrants in.
Those are the only 2 options to keep the country growing. Your pick.
I'm in favor of helping young American couples grow families with tax breaks, subsided child care and support..
DeleteFuck the illegals and everyone that tries to bring them here
JD