Census Bureau to release Vintage 2025 estimates after major methodological updates

Feb 6, 2026

The U.S. Census Bureau said it will publish its Vintage 2025 population estimates next week and outlined key methodology changes including adoption of a 2020-based MARC file as the base, a single NCHS source for vital statistics, and revised international and domestic migration procedures.

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The U.S. Census Bureau will publish its Vintage 2025 population estimates next week, and agency staff described several substantive methodological changes that users should expect to affect state and county totals as well as demographic characteristics.

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