Map Shows Region Leading 2050 Global Population Increase
Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region’s birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global population increase until 2050—sub-Saharan Africa. The global fertility rate was 2.2 births per woman last year, down from five […]
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How US Population Compares To First Independence Day
The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1780, the nearest available Census Bureau population estimate to the signing, nearly 2.8 million people lived in the first 13 states of the U.S. There […]
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New York State Reverses Population Losses
Recent census data shows that America’s population is growing, and New York was the state with the largest numeric gains from 2023 to 2024 after a long-standing trend of residents leaving the Empire State. Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Census Bureau via email for comment. Why It Matters After America’s population experienced “historically low […]
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