The United States Census Bureau has says the world population will stand at more than eight billion people at the first day of the New Year.
The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under one percent. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, according to the bureau.
The growth rate for the United States in the past year was 0.53 percent, about half the worldwide figure. The US added 1.7 million people and will have a population on New Year’s Day of 335.8 million people, according to One News.
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 four percent over the 10-year period from 2020 to 2030, said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.
The projected world population on Jan. 1, 2024 is 8,019,876,189, up 75,162,541 (0.95%) from New Year’s Day 2023. During January 2024, 4.3 births and 2.0 deaths are expected worldwide every second.
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