The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with an additional 73.7 million people from New Year’s Day 2022, the US Census Bureau said Thursday.
That marks a 0.9% increase in the world’s population over the past year. During January 2023, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, the Census Bureau said.
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Argentines fill a road for the welcome parade of the nation’s soccer team that won the World Cup in Buenos Aires on December 20, 2022.
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The US population on New Year’s Day 2023 is projected to be 334.2 million people, with 1.5 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022, or an increase of just under half percent.
The US is projected to have one birth every nine seconds and one death every 10 seconds by January 2023. Net international migration is expected to add one person to the US population every 32 seconds. The combination of births, deaths, and net international migration increases the US population by one person every 27 seconds, according to the Census Bureau.
