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According to the worldometers website, the world population, reaches 8.08 billion in January 2024 with a growth rate of 0.91% per year on average, adding around 73 million people per year to the total. 4.3 births and 2.0 deaths are expected worldwide every second.
World population by region:
Asia: 59%
Africa: 18%
Europe: 9%
Latin America and Caribbean: 8%
North America: 5%
Oceania: 0.6%
Topping the list of largest countries by population are India and China, which have 1.43 billion and 1.42 billion people respectively. The U.S is on the third place with a population of about 340 million.
Population growth rate of the U.S. is slow in the past decade and down to 0.5% in past few years. If the trend continues, the 2020s could be the slowest growing decade in U.S. history, worse than the time following the Great Depression.
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