At the time, the state, the most populous in the nation, had just under 40 million people. The decline, while a blow, was not unexpected. Growth had been slowing for some time. The Trump administration had put the brakes on legal immigration. The pandemic was cutting a brutal swath through the state, particularly among seniors.
An annual population report released showed that the state's population increased last year by about 67,000 people, driven largely by lower mortality and rebounding legal immigration. Proportionally speaking, that isn't much. But California's population is still not back to where it was in 2020, when the slump began. But it is once again moving in its traditional direction.
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