Washington – The U.S. population is expected to top out at close to 312.8 million people just around the time crowds gather to watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve, according to new census data released Thursday.
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The figure represents a 0.7% increase from last year, adding 2,250,129 people to the U.S. population since the start of 2011, and a 1.3% increase since Census Day, April 1, 2010.
The agency estimates that beginning in January, one American will be born every eight seconds and one will die every 12 seconds.
U.S.-bound immigrants are also expected to add one person every 46 seconds.
That combination of births, deaths and migration is expected to add a single person to the U.S. population every 17 seconds, the Census Bureau said.
Illegal immigrants. Yeah. And BHO doesn’t care.