Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson discusses his latest research brief, Deaths Exceeded Births in Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Last Year, which found that fewer births and more deaths has reduced population growth to a 100-year low. His research also revealed that in nearly 46 percent of nationwide counties, more people died than were born last year, meaning deaths were already at a record high prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the entire brief at https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/deaths-exceeded-births-US-counties-last-year