Population Scorecard true 0% 26 Checks mostly true 0% 22 Checks half true 0% 27 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 an X post West Virginia is “the only state losing population.” By Trent Ao • November 21, 2025 Instagram posts stated on December 5, 2024 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 J.D. Scholten stated on July 21, 2021 a tweet “By 2040, 70% of the population is expected to live in just 15 states.” August 6, 2021 Peter Feigin stated on June 23, 2021 Twitter Says people are moving to Milwaukee “in record numbers” By Madeline Heim • July 2, 2021 Glenn Youngkin stated on May 21, 2021 a radio interview. “Over the last few years, more Virginians are moving away from Virginia than are moving to Virginia from the other 49 states.” By Warren Fiske • June 17, 2021 Jim Justice stated on March 4, 2021 a tweet West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years” By Duncan Slade • March 25, 2021 James Tedisco stated on January 5, 2021 a news release “New York leads the nation in out-migration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade.” By Landon Allison, John Pullano • January 26, 2021 Joe Biden stated on September 29, 2020 the first presidential debate “Suburbs are by and large integrated.” By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2020 Jim Justice stated on July 27, 2020 a press conference West Virginia is the state with the oldest population. By Patrick Orsagos • July 29, 2020 Facebook posts stated on June 8, 2020 a Facebook post “The point of defunding the Police in Minneapolis is that Minnesota is where Obama settled 1 Million Islamics. They want Sharia Law.” June 17, 2020 MSNBC stated on March 5, 2020 an MSNBC segment “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.” By Bill McCarthy • March 6, 2020 Denver Riggleman stated on January 23, 2020 a radio interview. “Over 50% of the people now in the House and state Senate have not been born in Virginia.” By Warren Fiske • February 12, 2020 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 Latest promises about Population Barack Obama Create a rural revitalization program Obama administration’s rural strategy has experts ‘hopeful’ | December 19, 2012 Barack Obama Attract more doctors to rural areas Obama administration initiatives add doctors in rural areas | December 6, 2012 Latest promises about Population
