This year, the world's population grew by 75 million and will reach 8 billion on January 1. This is reported by ABC, according to UNN.
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According to the data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, the world's population grew by 75 million over the past year grew by 75 million people, and by the New Year it will be more than 8 billion people.
The global growth rate in last year was just under 1%. According to the Census Bureau, by the beginning of 2024, 4.3 people will be born every second worldwide and two deaths will be recorded every second.
The growth rate in the United States last year amounted to 0.53%, about half the rate of the rest of the world. The United States added 1.7 million people, and by the New Year its population will be 335.8 million people.
If the current pace continue through the end of the decade, the 2020s could be the slowest decade in U.S. history, yielding a growth rate of less than 4% over the 10-year period from 2020 to 2030, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institute's demographer.
The slowest growth was in the decade after the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the growth rate was 7,3%.
Of course, growth may accelerate somewhat when we end the pandemic years. But it will still be difficult to reach 7.3%