World population up 75 million this year, standing at 8 billion on 1 January

According to estimates issued by the US Census Bureau on Thursday, the world population increased by 75 million people in the previous year and will stand at more than 8 billion people on New Year’s Day.

In the previous year, the global growth rate was just under 1%. According to Census Bureau data, 4.3 births and two deaths are predicted worldwide per second beginning in 2024.

In the previous year, the United States’ growth rate was 0.53 percent, which was almost half of the global total. The United States gained 1.7 million individuals and will have a population of 335.8 million on New Year’s Day.

If the current pace continues through the end of the decade, the 2020s could be the slowest-growing decade in US history, yielding a growth rate of less than 4 per cent over the 10-year-period from 2020 to 2030, said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.

The slowest-growing decade currently was in the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s, when the growth rate was 7.3 per cent.

“Of course growth may tick up a bit as we leave the pandemic years. But it would still be difficult to get to 7.3 per cent,” Frey said.

At the start of 2024, the United States is expected to experience one birth every nine seconds and one death every 9.5 seconds. However, immigration will keep the population from dropping. Net international migration is expected to add one person to the US population every 28.3 seconds. This combination of births, deaths and net international migration will increase the US population by one person every 24.2 seconds.

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