UNH Today

New Hampshire tends to receive talented, well-educated people in its migration stream, said Ken Johnson, senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School, so the new numbers are encouraging. “It’s good news for the state in the sense that labor markets are so tight,” he said. In contrast, there were only 900 more births than deaths, contributing little to the population gain. Births have been decreasing because there are fewer women of child-bearing age, while deaths are increasing because of the state’s aging population and a significant increase in drug overdose deaths, Johnson said.