Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 05:42am on 01 Jan 2025,Wednesday International
The world population will reach 8.09 billion on January 1, 2025, after growing by 71 million in 2024, per U.S. Census Bureau estimates. This marks a 0.9% growth rate, slightly lower than 2023. Globally, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths occur every second. The U.S. population grew by 2.6 million in 2024, totaling 341 million. Projections for January 2025 indicate a birth every 9 seconds, a death every 9.4 seconds, and a net migration gain every 23.2 seconds, adding one person to the population every 21.2 seconds. The 2020s have seen a 2.9% U.S. growth rate, surpassing the 7.4% growth of the 2010s.
