Even without Covid, although that increased the margin immensely.
"In the first year of the pandemic, 104,149 babies were born in Michigan but 117,087 people died in the state, Metzger said - an overall population loss of 12,938.
"Among them were 11,362 Michigan residents who died from COVID-19, according to the state health department's 2020 mortality data, which counts only people for whom COVID- 19 was listed as the underlying rate, an aging population and a lack of immigrants, Metzger said, COVID-19 exacerbated an already downward population spiral that could have wide-reaching economic and political implications for the state."
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