Oregon’s population dropped in 2022 for the first time in decades, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The agency figures Oregon lost about 16,000 residents in the year leading up to July 1, 2022, representing about 0.4% of the state’s population. That puts Oregon at No. 6 among the fastest-shrinking U.S. states, both in percentage and numeric declines.
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Those forecasts depend on strong migration into the state to offset a natural decline as the state’s population ages and fewer children are born. In the past year, deaths outnumbered births in Oregon by 5,000.
The “experts” predicted continual expansion of the state’s population. Wrong again.
