WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The United States starts 2007 with a population of 300,888,812, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
The bureau said that on Monday, the U.S. population will be 2,863,990 greater than it was on Jan. 1, 2006, as the country continues to gain population at the rate of four people a minute.
The United States reached the 300 million mark in population at 7:46 a.m. EDT Oct. 17, the Census Bureau said.
Bureau statisticians say that with one birth every eight seconds, one death every 11 seconds and a net gain of one in immigration every 27 seconds, the overall U.S. population gains one person each 15 seconds.
The United States is No. 3 in the world in population behind China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). Indonesia is fourth with a population of 235 million followed by Brazil at 190 million.
