United States Adds New Migrant Every 29 Seconds
New Census Bureau clock shows staggering impact of immigration on population growth
by Brendan Kirby | Updated 21 Dec 2016 at 4:39 PM
The Census Bureau this week unveiled a newly designed population clock, which measures population growth in the United States in real time.
A blue line fills up a rectangular bar every eight seconds, denoting the birth rate, and also marks off a death every 12 seconds. The clock also shows the other driver of population growth — immigration. Counting those who arrive and those who leave, the country adds a net new international migrant every 29 seconds.
Factoring in everything, that’s a net gain of one new U.S. resident every 13 seconds. About 45 percent of that growth is from immigration.
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