The United States experienced a significant slowdown in its population growth rate in 2025, a trend attributed in part to Donald Trump's immigration policies, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The nation's population reached 341.8 million people, but its growth rate plummeted to 0.5 per cent.
This figure marks a sharp decline from the nearly 1 per cent growth recorded in 2024, which had been the highest since 2001 and was largely driven by immigration. The previous year's estimates had placed the U.S. population at 340 million.
