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Originally Posted by yuriandrade

As we're waiting the first results of 2020 Census:

U.S. Population Growth In 2019 Is Slowest In A Century

I don't think the US will ever again see natural growth above 1 million/year. In 2018 it droped below 1 million for the first time since 1937 (when the country had only 128 million inh.) and in 2019 another drop, to 890k. Needless to say 2020 will be a disaster. 1Q/2020 numbers are already available dropping to 113k compared to 149k in the previous year.

From now on, the US will become Europe: population growth will depend almost exclusively from immigration.

Agree with all of that. The problem for the US (like most of Europe) is the sheer numbers of immigrants they'd need to even maintain 0.5% annual population growth over the medium term. There's the question of whether Americans want to significantly boost immigration levels and whether foreigners want to move to the US like they did in the past. The appeal of the US globally has declined so the US would have to lower its entrance requirements.