Florida's population exceeds 23 million residents.

For the first time in its history, Florida's population has surpassed 23 million residents, largely driven by the influx of people from other states.

According to estimates published earlier this month by the state's Demographic Estimation Conference, Florida had 23,002,597 residents at the beginning of April this year, reported the AP news agency.

Surpassed only by the 39.5 million residents in California and the 30.5 million inhabitants in Texas, Florida is the third most populous state in the U.S.

In 2023, the state added nearly 359,000 new residents and has been adding between 350,000 and 375,000 people annually during this decade, according to estimates.

It is expected that population growth will peak this year and will decrease each subsequent year for the rest of the 2020s, AP specified.

"At the beginning of the 2030s, Florida's growth rate will be below 1%, after reaching the 1.6% projected for this year," he noted.

The study also noted that, in early 2020, before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, migration of people from other parts of the United States and abroad was the main source of population growth in Florida.

"Deaths have exceeded births in Florida since late 2019 and early 2020, and this trend is expected to continue well into the next decade," AP noted.

The study also highlighted that nearly 10% of Florida residents are 75 years or older, a figure only surpassed by Puerto Rico among the states and territories of the United States.

A large part of the Cuban migration that arrives in U.S. territory ends up residing in Florida.

The Cuban regime recently shared official data showing how the island's population has decreased by more than 10% in the last three years, with a significant portion ending up on U.S. soil, specifically in Florida.

The deputy chief of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, acknowledged before the parliamentarians that by the end of 2023, the "effective population" of Cuba stood at 10,055,968 citizens, but by 2024 it will be less than 10 million.

In 2022, Florida was the U.S. state with the highest population growth, according to official data.

The annual population increase was 1.9%, resulting in a total resident population of 22,244,823, according to the official figure released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

However, Miami-Dade reported a decrease in its population that same year for the first time since 1970, despite the county's efforts to become one of the most important commercial and financial centers in the country.

An analysis by the Census Bureau of the Brookings Institution cited by The Wall Street Journal mentions that this territory in South Florida is driving away more people than it attracts, among other factors, due to rising housing costs and a volatile job market.

According to the report, Miami-Dade lost 79,535 people due to net migration to other parts of Florida or other states between 2020 and 2022.