BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — Indiana’s population growth will continue to lag through 2060 as the state’s births increasingly outnumber its deaths, researchers at Indiana University said Tuesday.
Matt Kinghorn, senior demographer for the Indiana Business Research Center at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business , said in a news release , “To underscore how swift and severe this change will be: Indiana’s total population growth over the next 40 years is projected to be lower than the state’s growth between 2000 and 2010.”
“Natural increase,” or the number of births exceeding the total of deaths, accounted for 70% of the state’s growth in the past decade…