For the first time in its history, Florida’s population has surpassed 23 million residentsdriven largely by an influx of people from other states.
According to estimates released earlier this month by the state’s Demographic Estimation Conference, Florida had 23,002,597 residents at the beginning of April this yearthe news agency reported AP.
Surpassed only by the 39.5 million residents in California and the 30.5 million residents in Texas, Florida is the third most populous state in the US.
In 2023, the state added nearly 359,000 new residents and has been adding between 350,000 and 375,000 people annually this decade, according to estimates.
Population growth is expected to peak this year and will decline each subsequent year for the remainder of the 2020s, he said. AP.
“By the early 2030s, Florida’s growth rate will be less than 1%, after reaching the 1.6% forecast for this year,” he said.
The study also noted that in early 2020, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, migration of people from other parts of the United States and abroad was the main source of population growth in Florida.
“Deaths have outpaced births in Florida since late 2019 and early 2020, and that trend is projected to continue well into the next decade,” he said. AP.
The study also highlighted that nearly 10% of Florida residents are 75 years or older, a figure second only to Puerto Rico among U.S. states and territories.
A large portion of Cuban migrants arriving in the United States end up residing in Florida.
The Cuban regime recently shared official data showing how The island’s population has shrunk by more than 10% in the last three years.and much of it ends up on U.S. soil, specifically in Florida.
The deputy head of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), Juan Carlos Alfonso Fragaacknowledged before the parliamentarians, that at the end of 2023 the Cuban “effective population” stands at 10,055,968 citizensbut in 2024 there will be less than 10 million.
In 2022, Florida was the US state with the highest population growth, According to official data,.
The annual population increase was 1.9%, resulting in a total resident population of 22,244,823, according to the official figure revealed by the US Census Bureau.
However, Miami-Dade reported that same year a decrease in its population for the first time since 1970.despite the county’s ambition to become one of the most important commercial and financial centres in the country.
An analysis by the Brookings Institution Census Bureau cited by The Wall Street Journal refers to this territory in southern Florida It is scaring away more people than it attractsdue to, among other factors, rising housing costs and a volatile job market.
According to the report, Miami-Dade lost 79,535 people through net migration to other parts of Florida or other states between 2020 and 2022.