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It’s close, but California still doesn’t have 40 million residents, new numbers released by the state on Friday show.

The state’s population growth rate sank to a new low from July 1, 2018, to July 1 of this year, to just 0.35 percent. That’s down from 0.57 percent in the previous year, which was the lowest recorded rate since 1900.

Experts have said that the slowing of California’s once stratospheric population growth is caused by dwindling immigration into the state, coupled with larger numbers of people moving to other states.

[Read more about why California’s population growth is the slowest it’s been in more than a century.]