The world’s population will reach 8.09 billion on New Year’s Day following a 71 million increase during 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Monday. This 0.9% growth marks a slight decrease from 2023’s 75 million person expansion.
Global demographic projections for January 2025 anticipate 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths per second worldwide. The United States will enter 2025 with 341 million residents after growing by 2.6 million people in 2024.
U.S. population dynamics for early 2025 forecast one birth every 9 seconds and one death every 9.4 seconds, with international migration adding one person every 23.2 seconds. These factors combine to increase the U.S. population by one person every 21.2 seconds.
The Census Bureau reports U.S. population growth has reached 9.7 million (2.9%) in the 2020s, significantly outpacing the 2010s’ 7.4% growth rate, which marked the slowest increase since the 1930s.
