California Population Growth 2024. The state’s population increased by 0.17% — or more than 67,000 people — between jan. Projections of population with components of change, births, and public school enrollment at the state and county level produced by the demographic research unit (dru).

This report provides population estimates for january 1, 2021 through january 1, 2023 and provisional population estimates for january 1, 2024, for the state, counties, and cities. In 2020 california’s population shrank for the first time since it joined the union in 1850.