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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Joe Sommerlad

Census Bureau releases its 2024 population estimates for the United States and all 50 states

An American boy celebrates Independence Day by waving the Stars-and-Stripes - (Getty)

The US Census Bureau has revealed that the American population grew by one percent year-on-year in 2024, an increase of 3.3 million people driven by net international migration that takes the total number of US citizens past 340 million for the first time.

The agency reports that this is the fastest rate of growth since 2001 and represents a huge increase from the 0.1 percent total recorded in 2021 when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill.

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