U.S. Population, 2009: 305 Million and Counting

Recession or no, the country is growing

By U.S. News Staff

December 31, 2008 RSS Feed Print
  • 305,529,237: U.S. population estimate for Jan. 1, 2009
  • 2,743,429: Population added since Jan. 1, 2008
  • 8: Estimated number of seconds between births in January 2009
  • 12: Estimated number of seconds between deaths in January 2009
  • 1: Estimated number of immigrants added to the population every 36 seconds in January 2009

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau

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Our pop grown here in the US is a tiny fraction, overall, and discounting immigration would be in decline by now. The issue with global population remains poor education, poverty, lack of varying forms of social security, higher child mortality rates, etc, which combine to essentially REQUIRING large pools of children to make ends meet, ensure some survive long enough to take care of their parents as they get old, et cetera, women who have no choice in the matter, and so on. If you want to really curb or even redact growth, it has to be through education and the betterment of people's lives so that they can feel secure in having few children. Assigning blame is just going to put people on the defensive.

J.E. Turcotte of VA 3:42PM June 29, 2011

with population on the rise, this world is going to evaporate it really would be the end of the world if the populatio is not controlled. my advice... STOP HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN if you cant afford to keep them.

lily of NC 2:35PM November 17, 2010

Happy of NY I couldn't have said it better myself.

God Bless America!!

Chad D. of OR 1:33PM May 21, 2010

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