Demography
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,Ìýthe Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commentedÌý“A substantial excess of births over deaths has long been the primary driver of U.S. population growth, but as this...
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05/22/25CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women...
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05/21/25In this Newsweek article, U.S. News Reporter Jordan King interviews experts to examine the reason Americans are moving to low-tax states. Kenneth...
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06/15/22The Daily Yonder: "Over the past decade, the rural population declined by 0.6% but simultaneously became nearly 4 percentage points more diverse....
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06/01/22In this article The Hill reports, "More than half of American cities registered a loss of population over the last year as people flocked to suburbs...
Recent Stories
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01/02/21 -The South African Broadcasting Corporation recently reported on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that 2020 may become the deadliest year in U.S....
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01/01/21 -New Hampshire Public Radio recently reported on research by Dr. Ken Johnson of the Carsey School of Public Policy that finds that New Hampshire has experienced the largest...
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12/22/20 -The Guardian reports on new information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stating that life expectancy in 2020 could decline by 2–3 years. Carsey School Senior...
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12/22/20 -According to new data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. life expectancy could drop by the largest amount since World War II, reports The Wall...
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12/17/20 -The Hill reports on a U.S. Census Bureau finding that fewer Americans are moving now than at any time in the last seven decades. Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson...
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12/15/20 -New Hampshire is seeing an increase in young people moving into the state. Estimates from the U.S. Census released last week show that in the last four years, an average of 8,300...
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12/14/20 -Purchases of New Hampshire homes and condos are up by $1 billion since March when compared with the same period a year ago. A lack of new construction and a migration of people...
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12/04/20 -The Sunflower State Journal recently reported on the falling Kansas birthrate, which in 2019 hit the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1912, and interviewed Carsey School...
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11/30/20 -An analysis by Dante Scala, Political Science professor at UNH, and Carsey School demographer Kenneth Johnson described the urban/rural divide as a continuum based on population...
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11/23/20 -According to research done by Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey School, 60 percentÌýof those migrating to New Hampshire are under age 49. The research also shows...