The world is a little more crowded this morning after welcoming approximately 71 million new people into the world during 2024. As of January 1, 2025, known to most of the world as New Years Day, the world has a population of approximately 8.09 billion people. I say “approximately”, because it’s not like you can hand count every human being on earth; that’d take like a whole lot of time.
We can thank the U.S. Census Bureau for doing the math for us. They crunched the census data from 241 countries and territories around the world to get us these stats, and they reveal some interesting facts.
- In 2024 the population of the world grew by 0.9% or 71 million new people, which is down a little from 2023 when we added 75 million new people
- In 2025 the world can expect to have 4.2 births for every 2.0 deaths worldwide every second of the day, which is both an insanely accurate prediction that is both uplifting and morbid.
- In the U.S. we’ll have 1 birth every 9 seconds, and 1 death every 9.4 seconds in 2025.
- In the U.S. we added 2.6 million people in 2024, and our population as of New Year’s Day will be 341 million people.
- The U.S. will add one new person every 21.2 seconds.
- India is the most populated country in the world with an estimated 1.41 billion people.
- China is the second most populated country with China with 1.408 billion people.
- The United States is third with 341 million people.
