The world population will be 8.09B on New Year's Day after a 71M increase in 2024

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News/AP

December 30, 2024, 10:42 AM


The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year's Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

The 0.9% increase in 2024 was a slight slowdown from 2023, when the world population grew by 75 million people. In January 2025, 4.2 births and 2.0 deaths were expected worldwide every second, according to the estimates.

The United States grew by 2.6 million people in 2024, and the U.S. population on New Year's Day will be 341 million people, according to the Census Bureau.

The United States was expected to have one birth every 9 seconds and one death every 9.4 seconds in January 2025. International migration was expected to add one person to the U.S. population every 23.2 seconds. The combination of births, deaths and net international migration will increase the U.S. population by one person every 21.2 seconds, the Census Bureau said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/world-population-809-billion-new-years-day-after-117201279

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Link to Census Bureau NEWS RELEASE - Census Bureau Projects U.S. and World Populations on New Year’s Day

[dchill]

1. Not to put too fine a point on it...

...but that's a LOT of people.

[Callie1979]

2. But, but the VACCINE was supposed to have killed us OFF by now

Thats what some of my idiot friends ave told for the past 3 yrs

[multigraincracker]

3. I think the planet can only support 3 billion.

At best. Just my opinion.

[Solly Mack]

4. That's a lot of fucking.

Not to put too fine of a point on it.

[Woodycall]

5. It's a very popular activity!

[Solly Mack]

9. Obviously.

My nephew was telling me about his wife getting ready to have their fourth child. The way he said it sounded as if he was in disbelief that they were on their fourth one in as many years.

I asked, "You do know what causes that, right?"

Because if he is in disbelief now, the fifth one was going to put him into shock.

[Woodycall]

11. Ha!

[OnlinePoker]

6. 0.91% growth increase in 2024

The past 2 years have shown slight upticks from the downward trajectory. I think that might be a rebound from the pandemic years. I hope it continues to drop, though we'd have to hear Muskrat talking about how this is a bad thing.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/world/population-growth-rate

[EarthFirst]

7. Climate change will create insufferable misery for most of them...

There’s only so much carrying capacity that can be expected; we’ve also surpassed carbon emission reduction goals to make an impactful reversal on climate change.

In a timeframe where many often look forward to a new year by manifesting positive change; I find this news difficult to embrace…

[anciano]

8. Earth is a finite particle in the universe

with a limited amount of resources and obviously cannot support an unlimited number of people. The necessary adjustments that ultimately will be made by either Nature or the human species itself is yet to be determined.

[slightlv]

10. Thus enters Thanos...

[PortTack]

12. Nailed it! To quote the ever famous philosopher Snoopy "it's too peopley out there."

[Blue_Tires]

13. But if you listen to Trumpers, Melon Husk and the other tech bros

They'll all tell you we're in a "population decline" 🙄

[cstanleytech]

14. The world simply can't handle so many people in the long run *sigh*

[Vegan4life]

15. A calamity for the planet

And for non-human animals.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Wonder what happened to the Population Zero campaign of 60 years ago?

I guess that crazy " every fertilized egg is a person" theory caught on.

[Marthe48]

17. I read the book in 1970 or 71

and we stuck to 2 children, even though we both came from big families.

Several people close to us had 3 kids, most had 2. But the idea of having smaller families didn't take off the the population did.

[Beringia]

18. Shiitte

I read recently that the 14th Dalai Lama;s mother, Gyalyum Chemo gave birth to 16 children, only seven survived, three of whom were recognized as incarnate lamas, so some good came from that fertile woman. The Dalai Lama was born in 1935

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Well there was

(and still continues to be) "angst" about "not enough" contributing to Social Security when you have "baby busts" periods.

WaPo just had an editorial about this a little over 6 months ago -

Opinion
Megan McArdle
Women are having fewer babies. That’s bad news for retirees.

May 14, 2024


The release of the annual Social Security trustees’ report is usually the occasion for some dolorous lament that we have inched another year closer to disaster. This year, however, I have good news! The industrious actuaries at the Social Security Administration, having ground through all the data, now think our nation’s looming entitlement meltdown looks slightly less catastrophic than it did last year.

They now forecast that the combined Social Security Trust Funds won’t be exhausted until 2035, a year later than they expected in 2023. They also see some improvement in the program’s long-term finances, primarily because of more favorable assumptions about productivity growth and disability rates — though that happy news is, they write, “partially offset by a decrease in the assumed long-term total fertility rate,” which has now gone from 2 children per woman to 1.9.

There’s only one wee fly in this optimistic ointment: This positive news depends on the fertility assumptions being correct, and they’re probably not. They’re probably still much too high.

The report’s authors have helpfully provided a guide to their underlying demographic assumptions, including a chart illustrating the evolution of fertility for women in various age groups. It shows that birthrates have fallen sharply for women in their 20s, plateaued for women in their early 30s, and risen significantly for women in their late 30s and early 40s.

(snip)

The report linked in the above from SS is here (PDF) - https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2024/2024_Long-Range_Demographic_Assumptions.pdf

And from here - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-fertility-rate-is-falling-is-there-anything-we-can-do-78d7bc83

[nmmi]

20. Population Connection is the organization that was originally Zero Population Growth

https://populationconnection.org/
https://www.facebook.com/PopulationConnection

I donated my farm to them in 2016 in exchange for a charitable gift annuity, and thus became a member of their ZPG Society.

What ever happened to ZPG?
https://populationconnection.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-zpg/

[Marthe48]

21. Fewer children means more disposable income for families

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If you have a passle of poor kids, you feed them bread and beans. If you have 2 wanted kids, you can afford education and other perks. You get enough people educated, all hell breaks loose. ZPG went by the boards because the megalomaniacs don't want competition from a healthy middle class for goods and services.