Demography Roundup #14: Americans Keep Heading South
Plus: preliminary 2023 crime data from the FBI + the growing gender gap in life expectancy.
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#1: 🚚 Americans continue flocking to the South.
The Census Bureau’s annual population estimates for the year ending July 2023 are out. The nation gained 1.6M people, or another +0.5%, the majority of which—as has been the case since 2021—came from immigration.