“Back in 2008, natural increase — or the difference between births and deaths — accounted for 77% of Indiana’s growth," said Kinghorn. "In 2024, by contrast, a net international migration of 30,852 residents accounted for 70% of the state’s growth.”

All U.S. population growth in 2022-23 happened because of immigration, not births, the first time that’s occurred since 1850, the Migration Policy Institute reported Wednesday.

Immigration was the sole driver of the United States' population growth in a single year for the first time since records began, a new study released Wednesday said. The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI) looked at U.

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,