Washington, DC…The 2010 Census counted 308,745,538 people living in the United States. Now, 10 years later, the 2020 Census is still counting and we will not know the final number until our work is done and presented to the president and Congress. However, the U.S. Census Bureau provides population estimates between the decennial censuses and as projected, the nation reached a milestone at 8:02 a.m. EDT today: the U.S. population hit 330 million.

The clock shows a net gain of one person every 16 seconds through the. Population Estimates Program which calculates the three components of change: births, deaths, and migration.

“Using administrative records, we measure change since the last Census,” said Luke Rogers, chief of the Population Estimates Branch. “We release estimates for many groups and geographies.”

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