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La Isla Que VieneOpinionCommentary, not the record

The cradle decides the island's size

Because deaths outnumber births by almost two to one on the island, every record-low birth year is a smaller workforce and a smaller tax base a generation out, and no policy that ignores the cradle holds Puerto Rico's size.

Valeria Soto Marrero
Columnist, La Isla Que Viene
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The new population estimate is plain about the island's size. Puerto Rico had about 3.18M people on July 1, 2025, about 18,000 fewer than a year before and about 97,000 fewer than in 2020 [7][8][9]. The migration story is told often. The quieter story is the cradle.