Population up by 2.9 million in ’06
From Times Wire Reports
When the clock ticks over to midnight Sunday and 2007 arrives, the United States will have nearly 2.9 million more people than a year earlier.
The Census Bureau projected that the nation’s population as of Jan. 1 will be 300,888,812. That’s up 2,863,990 during the year.
In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds, the bureau said. And, it added, migration from other countries will add one person every 27 seconds.
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