In each year since 2016, Vermont has experienced more deaths than births. That means Vermont has a negative rate of what demographers call the “natural rate of increase.” That could be the first time this has happened in Vermont’s history. Given the aging of the baby boom generation and the falling number of women in their prime child-bearing years, that trend will continue into the foreseeable future.
But the current decade-long population decline is different, occurring when the economy is healthy and nothing remotely resembling the Spanish flu plagues the world. Moreover, some projections call for a continued population decline through the 2020s.
If that does occur, it will be the first 20-year period of population decline in the state’s history.
The U.S. Census Bureau has some Interesting statistics for Vermont.
One is that geezers 65 and over outnumber children 18 and under.
If you qualify Vermont will give you a $10,000 bonus to move here.
Vermont isn’t the only blue State to be losing population.
New York State is losing so many people that it just might lose a congressional seat. And take a guess whose seat may be on the chopping block.
27 States and the District of Columbia lost population through net domestic migration between 2018 and 2019, six of which had losses over 25,000, and three of which experienced losses greater than 100,000. The top states with net domestic migration loss were California (-203,414), New York (-180,649), Illinois (-104,986), New Jersey (-48,946), Massachusetts (-30,274) and Louisiana (-26,045).
“Net domestic migration”, that’s people moving out folks.
Taking account of births vs. deaths and people moving in vs. moving out the the following was determined…
The 10 states that lost population were New York (-76,790; -0.4%), Illinois (-51,250; -0.4%), West Virginia (-12,144; -0.7%), Louisiana (-10,896; -0.2%), Connecticut (-6,233; -0.2%), Mississippi (-4,871; -0.2%), Hawaii (-4,721; -0.3%), New Jersey (-3,835; 0.0%), Alaska (-3,594; -0.5%), and Vermont (-369 ; -0.1%)
Most though not all States with population declines are BLUE, Democrat, and Progressive. They have high taxes and many regulations, especally concerning the ownership of firearms. Which is most likely the reason many move out.
There was a time when this would have been thought a good thing.
According to some prognosticators from the distant past (1968), We should all be dead now.
Now about Europe…
Apparently the people of Europe took all this to heart. So they abandoned their Christian heritage, values and God. They Stopped having babies and then all of a sudden didn’t have enough young people working and paying taxes to maintain their cradle to grave programs of free health care and free education. So they did the politically correct thing and open their borders to the very people who have been trying to conquer them since 732 A.D.