According to data released on Thursday by the US Census Bureau, the global population increased by 75 million throughout the course of the previous year and will reach over 8 billion people on New Year’s Day.
Over the previous year, there was little under 1% global growth. The Census Bureau projects that, as of the beginning of 2024, there will be two deaths and 4.3 births each second globally.
About half of the global growth rate was achieved by the US last year, at 0.53 percent. With 1.7 million new residents, the US will have 335.8 million residents on New Year’s Day.
According to William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution, if the current rate of growth persists through the end of the decade, the 2020s may be the slowest-growing decade in US history, with a growth rate of less than 4% throughout the ten-year period from 2020 to 2030.
The 1930s, which saw 7.3 percent growth in the years following the Great Depression, are currently the slowest-growing decade.
Of course, when the pandemic years come to an end, growth might pick up a little. Reaching 7.3 percent would still be challenging, though, according to Frey.
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