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Wisconsin recently has seen its highest levels of net migration in at least two decades, bolstered by a national increase in migrants entering the United States from abroad. Until recently, natural population change accounted for most of Wisconsin’s population growth. But with births exceeding deaths by a dwindling amount, the state’s chances for population growth may depend more on its domestic and international migration levels.

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