U.S. and World Populations Continue to Grow in 2018
Almost 327 million people rang in the new year in the United States in 2018, about 2.3 million more than the year before.
"While the nation's population continues to grow, we've seen a slight slowdown in growth over the past two years,” said Molly Cromwell, a demographer at the U.S. Census Bureau. “This is largely due to slowing natural increase, or how many more births there are than deaths."
The U.S. population grew to 326,971,407 on Jan.1, 2018, an increase of 2,314,238, or 0.71 percent, since New Year’s Day 2017 and up 5.9 percent since the 2010 Census.
Births are expected to outnumber deaths the rest of this year. The Census Bureau projects that one baby will be born every eight seconds while one person will die every 10 seconds. Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person to the U.S. population every 29 seconds. The combination of births, deaths and net international migration is projected to increase the U.S. population by one person every 18 seconds.
The projected world population on Jan.1, 2018, was 7,444,443,881, an increase of 78,521,283, or 1.07 percent, from New Year’s Day 2017. In January 2018, 4.3 births and 1.8 deaths are expected worldwide every second.
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