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Originally Posted by YSL
It definitely not only covid to blame
California gained people during the extremes of the lockdown according to their report . California started losing population in July and has accelerated since. So there is a post-Covid “exodus” happening
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California’s population declined for the first time ever last year. Here’s why
Kim Bojorquez
The Sacramento Bee
May 7, 2021
For the first time in state history, California’s population declined in 2020.
The milestone followed a deadly pandemic, a long-term decline in births and former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies that drove away potential newcomers, according to the California Department of Finance.
That combination contributed to a population decline of 182,083 residents, according to new data released by the state on Friday. That marks a .46% decline in the state’s population, keeping it under 40 million residents.
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The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to 51,000 deaths in California last year, a 19% surge in average death rates over the past three years, according to the data. Fifty-one of the state’s 58 counties saw rates of “excess deaths.”
Strict immigration policies under the Trump administration like the suspension of immigration and foreign worker visas last year also contributed to the reduction. Furthermore, international COVID-19 restrictions led to the decline of 53,000 international students in the state.
Additionally, another long-term trend of Californians moving out of the state continued. Usually, foreign immigration offsets that kind of population decline, according to the Department of Finance, but not last year.
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Natalie Holmes, a research fellow at the California Policy Lab, said the number of people leaving the state has increased steadily in recent years, but she wouldn’t categorize it as a “mass exodus.”
“Statewide we didn’t see this big uptick in people leaving the state because of the pandemic,” she said.
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