A Word About U.S. Population Growth

In my last blog entry, I mentioned that the monthly population growth was 250,000. That's 3 million persons per year. That number was a little high. I based it on a one percent annual population growth as had been seen in the 1990's and early 2000's. The current rate is actually slower than that at .883% which means that the annual population is about 2.6 million or approximately 220,000 persons per month. As a point of historical reference, the population growth in the 1950's was closer to 2% against the base population -- the baby boom years.