Population Scorecard True 0% 26 Checks Mostly True 0% 22 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 17 Checks False 0% 16 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 6 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Population stated on November 5, 2025 in an X post: West Virginia is “the only state losing population.” November 21, 2025 Instagram posts stated on December 5, 2024 in an Instagram post: “The population in Gaza has increased by 2.02% since Oct. 7, 2023.” December 6, 2024 Ron DeSantis stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post: “In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024 Joe Biden stated on June 15, 2023 in a speech: "Twenty-six out of every 100 students” in K-12 speak Spanish. By Maria Briceño • June 21, 2023 Jonathan Turley stated on June 24, 2022 in an interview on Fox News: “The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.” By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022 Lee Zeldin stated on April 12, 2022 in a tweet: “New York leads the U.S. in population loss.” By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • May 6, 2022 X posts stated on April 5, 2022 in a tweet: “With the money Elon Musk spent to buy Twitter shares, he could have given every American family $100,000 and still had enough left over to cancel all student debt.” By Andy Nguyen • April 8, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on December 20, 2021 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe": “I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.” By Louis Jacobson • December 22, 2021 Bloggers stated on October 7, 2021 in an article: "Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth” in an “unedited 2010 TED Talk video" By Gabrielle Settles • October 11, 2021 Kurt Bauer stated on June 27, 2021 in TV interview: “We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.” By D.L. Davis • August 10, 2021 Load More Latest Articles ¿Cuántas personas trans hay en Estados Unidos y por qué las sobrestimamos? By Grace Abels • July 18, 2023 How many trans people are there in the U.S., and why do we overestimate it? By Grace Abels • July 13, 2023 Joe Biden exagera el número de estudiantes que hablan español By Maria Briceño • June 22, 2023 As Ron DeSantis kicks off his presidential bid, how has Florida fared economically on his watch? By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2023 Fact-checking the second McAuliffe-Youngkin debate By Warren Fiske • October 1, 2021 Could an undercounted 2020 Census afflict a range of federal statistics? By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2020
