H/t ‘Interested’
The US population is expected to reach the magical number of 300 million Tuesday:
The Census Bureau projects that America’s population will hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The projection is based on estimates for births, deaths and net immigration that add up to one new American every 11 seconds.
And there is room for more:
America still has a lot of wide-open spaces, with about 84 people per square mile, compared with about 300 people per square mile in the European Union and almost 900 people per square mile in Japan.
The speed with which the US population grows is incredible: 100 million in the last 39 years, 50% + in the last half century.
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