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LA, California Population Growth Sputters For The First Time Ever
California and its largest city have never seen population growth fall to a statistical 0 percent. Here's why.
LOS ANGELES, CA — The population boom that Los Angeles and California are famous for crawled to a standstill last year. For the first time in history, California and it's largest city recorded a statistically zero percent change in population.
Declining birth rates combined with the aging and dying of the Baby Boomers to account for the slowing population growth, according to the data released by the Department of Finance . The department found that California's population growth was 0.47 percent. The total population in the state at the start of 2019 was 39,927,315, while Los Angeles County's population was 10,253,716 and the city of Los Angeles was 4,040,079.
Births statewide were down by more than 18,000 from the previous year. Signs that the youth population is not growing were also reflected in decreasing student enrollment. Deaths continued an upward trend seen since 2010 as California's "Baby Boomers" continue to age, the report said.
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City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.
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