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GLOBAL POPULATION INCREASES BY 75M, SET TO SURPASS 8BN ON JANUARY 1ST
The Business Guardian
|December 30, 2023
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the US Census Bureau
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The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the US Census Bureau on Thursday.
The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1 percent. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, according to the Census Bureau figures.
This story is from the December 30, 2023 edition of The Business Guardian.
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