More people are choosing to leave New York and live elsewhere than any other state in the US as high taxes are blamed for driving people out of the state.

US Census data that was released on Monday revealed that for the fourth consecutive year, the state's population is decreasing as the number of people moving away outweighed the number of births and people moving in.

New York is one of just 10 states which has seen a decline in population between 2018 and 2019, according to a study by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Census data revealed that New York's population has decreased for the fourth consecutive year

New York is one of just 10 states which has seen a decline in population between 2018 and 2019, according to a study by the Empire Center for Public Policy

The December 30 report said: 'New York has lost nearly 1.4 million residents to the rest of the country since 2010 – and largely as a result of this outflow, the Empire State's total population barely budged during the decade.'

According to the New York Post, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said that Trump and the GOP were responsible for New York's loss of residents.

Cuomo senior adviser Richard Azzopardi: 'These right-wing cheerleaders fail to mention that it was the Washington Republicans' asinine SALT cap who raised taxes on New Yorkers at this time - not the state.

'Under this [Cuomo] administration, middle-class taxes were cut to historic lows, business taxes were lowered, manufacturing taxes were eliminated, property taxes were permanently capped, unemployment was cut in half and a record number of private-sector jobs were created.'

Some 180,649 more residents have moved out of New York State than moved in from other states over the past year.

The state gained just 45,753 foreign immigrants - the lowest annual amount since 2010, and the second lowest in at least 58 years.

Only West Virginia, Alaska and Illinois saw their populations fall at a faster percentage rate.

While the report itself didn't speculate about why so many people are leaving the state, Staten Island councilman Joe Borelli told the New York Post: 'The cost of living in New York — the high taxes, regulations and housing costs — are making it untenable to live the American dream here.'

And the author of the report told the NYP: 'For all of New Jersey's problems, it's still less expensive to live there than in New York City or the NYC suburbs.'