U.S. population growth is lower than at any time since the Great Depression via The Washington Post

Last year the United States had the lowest rate of population growth of any year since the Great Depression, according to census figures released Tuesday.

The milestone is due largely to the aging of the population, with more deaths last year than at any time since 2000, according to William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The nation grew by 0.695 percent between 2015 and 2016 to 323.1 million, down from 0.732 percent the previous year — the lowest increase since 1937-1938, when it was 0.60 percent.

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