The United States is the third most populated country in the world with approximately 324,260,700 people. This is not even close to India with 1.2 billion people and China with 1.3 billion, according to the United States Census Bureau (USCB).
These figures from the USCB only include people living in the U.S. They do not include members of the Armed Forces overseas, their dependents, or other U.S. citizens residing outside the United States.
Overpopulation isn’t only a rumor — the U.S. population is steadily climbing. By the time you finish reading this article, there will be approximately 25 more people in the U.S.
One person is born every seven seconds, and one person dies every 13 seconds.
Immigrants are also coming in faster than previous years. The USCB estimates a migrant comes to the U.S. every 29 seconds, which is an increase from one every 33 seconds last year and one every 40 seconds a few years ago.
The U.S. has a net gain of one person every 11 seconds, according to the USCB.
You can watch the population clock on census.gov.
The most populous state is California with a population of 39,144,818, and a population per square mile of 251.3 people in 2015. The other most populous states include Texas (27,469,114 people), Florida (20,271,272 people), and New York (19,795,791 people).
The District of Columbia has the highest density with 10,994 people per square mile, followed by New Jersey with 1,218 people per square mile, and Rhode Island with 1,031.7 people per square mile.
Michigan
Michigan is the 10th most populated state with 9,922,576 people and 175.5 people per square mile in 2015.
In the Great Lakes State in 2015, women outnumber men at approximately 50.9 percent, and approximately 23 percent of the population is under 18 years old.
Approximately 6.2 percent of Michigan’s population in 2015 was foreign born.
World
The world population clock is at 7,344,722,900 as this article is being written. The Washington Post suggests that the entire world population could fit into New York City if everyone stood shoulder to shoulder.
It’s estimated that over 108 billion people have lived on earth, according to National Geographic.
There are more young people in the world than ever before, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Approximately 1.8 billion people in the world are between the ages of 10 and 24. Many are concentrated in developing countries.
By the end of the century, the world’s population could be as high as 17 billion or as low as 7 billion, according to the United Nations. This depends on fertility rates and life expectancy.
In the early 1970s, women had 4.5 children on average and by 2014, women had 2.5 children on average.
The U.S. is on track to overpopulating. Since Aug. 16, 2015, the U.S. population has increased by approximately 2.5 million people. That’s an increase in population size of approximately 0.73 percent.
Federally owned land
The federal government owns 47 percent of all the land in the West, according to the New York Times. This is because of all the national parks and reserves.
The United States Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Fish and Wildlife Service own and control a large portion of western states, like Nevada.
The federal government owns about 10 percent of the land in Michigan. Most central and eastern states contain less than 5 percent of federally owned land.
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