Pic-of-the-Week: Slowing Population Growth Becoming a Concern for Long-Run U.S. Growth (5/05/2014)
U.S. Population Growth Cut in Half the Past Twenty Years – Europe and Japan have long wrestled with the concerns of flagging population growth. Total headcount remains a key determinant of the overall size of any economy.
In the U.S., population growth has slowed by half since the early 1990s, from roughly 1.4% to only 0.7% currently.