All of the United States’ net population growth between 2022 and 2023 was due to immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. It’s the first time population influx from immigration has outpaced native births since the Census began to collect data on nativity in 1850,

According to census demographer Kristie Wilder, the population rise in cities is increasingly being “influenced by international migration. While births continue to contribute to overall growth, it is increasing international migration that is offsetting the domestic outflows from cities that we see in many areas,” she says.