Drivers of Population Growth: Natural Increase vs. Net Migration

B Ravikumar and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: A nation’s population growth results from natural increase and net migration. But the relative significance of each factor differs based on the country’s income level, as this analysis finds.

Keywords: population growth; net migration; birth rate; death rate; real gross domestic product (GDP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04-20
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