Analysis | Trump says ‘our country is full,’ but we could actually add a few trillion more people

Analysis: Trump says 'our country is full,' but we could actually add a few trillion more people

President Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on March 28. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 5 at 5:20 PM President Trump has a new argument meant to dissuade people from trying to migrate to the United States.

“Our country is full, our area is full, the sector is full,” Trump added. “We can’t take any more. Sorry. Can’t have it. So turn around. That’s the way it is.” Clearly we’re not full full. But Trump’s phrasing nonetheless raises an interesting question. If we wanted to, how many more people could we squeeze into the United States?

Let’s assume that we fill all of those up, meeting the national average of 2.6 people per household. What if the United States were instead as densely packed as, say, the Gulf nation of Bahrain? Bahrain is the most densely packed country that isn’t also a city, with 5,582 people per square mile. That’s not as horrible as it sounds; New York City is about five times as densely packed.

Literally cramming as many people as possible on every square inch Again, though, that’s setting a standard for habitation that isn’t exactly pushing the envelope. What if, instead of housing everyone, we wiped the entire surface of the United States clean and simply packed in as many people as we possibly could?

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