According to the United States Census Bureau<\/a>, the projected U.S. population today<\/a>, based on 2010 Census estimates, is 312,530,196.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s estimated that our population has a birth every 8 seconds and a death every 12 seconds, for a net gain of 1 person every 13 seconds.<\/p>\n This map shows the nighttime distribution of our population<\/a> in the United States and Puerto Rico:<\/p>\n Nighttime Map of the U.S. Population, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau<\/p><\/div>\n The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations<\/a> provides much more information about world population growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n As we welcome our seven billionth world citizen<\/a>, should we be concerned about population growth?\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, says the United Nations Population Fund, which sponsors the program 7 Billion Actions, A Global Movement for All Humanity<\/a>. Learn more about global population, read stories of people who are trying to make a difference in their communities<\/a>–and maybe even share your own story<\/a> with the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oct. 31st, 2011, marks the official recognition of a world population of 7 billion people. Is that a scary thought? According to the United States Census Bureau, the projected U.S. population today, based on 2010 Census estimates, is 312,530,196.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s estimated that our population has a birth every 8 seconds and a death every 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-documents","category-odum-library","category-reference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/10\/2010_Nighttime_PopDist_Thumbnail3.jpg\" "\\"2010_Nighttime_PopDist_Thumbnail\\"")
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