We are 8 billion people on New Year’s Eve

The world’s population increased by 75 million people last year and will reach the 8 billion mark on New Year’s Day, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Last year the global growth rate was just under 1%. According to data released publicly by the Census Bureau in recent hours,Associated pressBy the beginning of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths per second are expected worldwide.

Last year, the US growth rate was 0.53%, about half the global figure. At the beginning of the year, the population of the United States will be 335.8 million. If the current pace continues through the end of this decade, the 2020s could be the slowest-growing decade in U.S. history, with a growth rate of less than 4% over the 10-year period from 2020 to 2030, according to William Frey’s calculations. He’s a demographer at the Brookings Institution.

One birth every 9 seconds and one death every 9.5 seconds in the USA

By far the slowest growth decade was the decade following the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the growth rate was 7.3%. Of course, things may change in the coming years, first of all, as we get out of the pandemic years, population growth may increase slightly. “But reaching 7.3% would still be difficult,” Frey notes.

By early 2024, there will be a birth every nine seconds and a death every 9.5 seconds in the United States. If the population does not decrease, it will be thanks to immigration. In fact, statisticians predict that net international migration will add one person to the U.S. population every 28.3 seconds. The combination of births, deaths, and net international migration will increase the population of the United States by one person every 24.2 seconds.

How much will the world population increase?

Globally, the world population growth rate has been declining since its peak in the early 1960s. The last hundred years have seen rapid population growth due to medical advances and large increases in agricultural productivity. All regions of the world have seen major declines in growth rates in recent years, but growth rates remain above 2% in some countries in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Some countries, especially in Eastern Europe, are experiencing population decline, i.e. negative growth, due to low fertility rates, high death rates and immigration. Growth is slowing in South Africa due to high HIV-related deaths. Some Western European countries may also experience negative population growth.

The United Nations predicts that the world’s population will exceed 10 billion by the end of this century, but not everyone agrees. Scientists such as Sanjeev Sanyal have argued that global fertility will fall below replacement rates in the 2020s, with the world population peaking at less than 9 billion in 2050, followed by a long decline.

Source: Today IT

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