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In the minute that it takes the famous Times Square crystal ball to drop all the way and welcome New Year's Day, averages indicate that about eight American babies will be born, five Americans will die, and a net of two new immigrants will arrive.
And the U.S. population will hit 320,090,857, according to estimates released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
That is an increase of 2.33 million people, up 0.73 percent, from a year earlier. That is roughly the equivalent of adding a state with the population of New Mexico.
The Census Bureau each year estimates the New Year's Day population, and predicts how fast the national and global populations will increase during the coming year.
For the record, it predicts that during January:
• The United States will have one birth every eight seconds.
• It will have one death every 12 seconds.
• Net international migration will add one person every 33 seconds.
• The combined effect of births, deaths and migration will increase the U.S. population by one person every 16 seconds.
The Census also estimates the world's population on New Year's Day will be 7,214,958,996. That is an increase of 77.4 million people over last year, up 1.08 percent. That is roughly the equivalent of adding a country the size of Turkey.
During January 2015, the Census Bureau predicts 4.3 births and 1.8 deaths worldwide every second.
The Census Bureau has a Population Clock online to measure the real-time growth of national and global populations.
— Lee Davidson