Is the population of the United States over 1 million?

At 7: 46 am Eastern Time on October 17th, 26, the total population of the United States exceeded 3 million, which was a milestone in the history of American population.

The United States has an increase of one person every 11 seconds

According to the US Census Bureau, in the United States, one person is born every 7 seconds, one person dies every 13 seconds, and one immigrant arrives in the United States every 31 seconds. Taking these factors into consideration, the net population growth rate is one person every 11 seconds.

Therefore, at this growth rate, the 3 millionth person in the United States will be born at 7: 46 am EDT on the 17th.

It took 52 years for the population of the United States to increase from 1 million to 2 million, but it took only 39 years to increase from 2 million to 3 million. It is estimated that it may take only 37 years to increase another 1 million. In the past 1 years, the population growth rate of the United States was the fastest in its history, especially during the "baby boom" after World War II. After entering the new century, the population is still rising steadily, and it is expected to reach a stable period by 27.

At present, the total population of the world is about 6.5 billion, and the population of the United States ranks third in the world after China and India.

The number of new immigrants has increased rapidly

With the increase of population, some changes have taken place in the population structure and distribution of the United States.

a remarkable change lies in the ethnic composition of the American population and the role played by immigrants. In the 197s, new immigrants accounted for only 5% of the total population of the United States, and now this number has risen to 12.1%, and it is still on the rise.

Different people have given different interpretations of this new situation. William Frey, a population expert at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, said: "Immigration has brought us diversity and introduced new ideas, skills and cultures, which means that we can do business with people from other countries better." Roy baker, the president of Digital America, an organization specializing in immigration, believes that the consequences of this situation are traffic jams, more constraints, loss of individualism and reduction of freedom and space. In a word, America is more and more like Europe. In addition, Baker also blamed all the reasons for the long-term population growth on immigrants. He said: "If the growth of immigrant population is zero, we will never reach 3 million people. We should only have 245 million today."

At the same time, the population of the United States is still uneven in distribution. More than half of Americans live in 11 of the 5 states in the United States, most of which are in coastal areas.

the areas with rapid population growth are located in the south and west of the United States. However, Frey pointed out that Americans are moving from the traditional sunny areas in the west and south such as Florida, Texas and California to new sunny areas in the interior, such as Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Tennessee.

Consumerism harms the environment

The population growth in the United States will also have a considerable impact on the environment. According to the research report of an independent research institution-Center for Environment and Population, the United States is the only industrial country in the world experiencing a sharp increase in population, and the high birth rate and high consumption of natural resources also have a huge adverse impact on the environment.

As we all know, the United States has 5% of the world's population, but it occupies 25% of the world's resources, which is more than four times the world average. Correspondingly, the amount of garbage produced by Americans and the amount of carbon dioxide released are 2 times and 5 times of the world average, respectively, and they are the main "contributors" to global warming.