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Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 315.1 Million on New Year's Day 2013

Submitted on December 28, 2012 - 6:00pm
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Map of U.S. with Jan 1, 2013 and population projection overlay

As our nation prepares to begin the New Year, the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau projects that on January 1, 2013, the total United States population will be 315,091,138. This represents an increase of 2,272,462, or 0.73 percent, from New Year's Day 2012 and an increase of 6,343,630, or 2.05 percent, since the most recent Census Day (April 1, 2010).

Component Settings for January 2013:

  • One birth every 8 seconds
  • One death every 12 seconds
  • One international migrant (net) every 40 seconds
  • Net gain of one person every 17 seconds

U.S. POPClock Projection  |  NIST photo of U.S. Smart Grid 

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One birth every 8 seconds One

Submitted on December 31, 2012 - 6:37am.

One birth every 8 seconds
One death every 12 seconds
One international migrant (net) every 40 seconds

Based on three assumptions above, the net increasement is one person every 15 seconds.