#Most populous states in us update#

“I think it’s so important to remember that even when things are tough, we still see a lot of people moving to California,” said Eddie Hunsinger, a demographer with the state Department of Finance.Ĭalifornia’s unemployment rate is at a record low 3.9 percent - reflecting a 117-month job expansion not seen since shortly after World War II. More than 158,000 people moved to California over the 12 month period that ended July 1. “People won’t move here because they can’t afford to come in the door,” said Dowell Myers, professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California. State officials say it is the first time since the 2010 census that more people left California than moved in over the course of a year, contributing to the state’s slowest recorded growth rate since 1900. But when you include people who moved in and out of the state, California lost 39,500. The report shows California added more than 180,000 people when accounting for births and deaths for the 12 month period ending July 1. More people are leaving California than moving in, evidence of the toll the state’s housing crisis is taking as the world’s fifth largest economy inches toward 40 million people.Īn estimate released Friday by the California Department of Finance put the California’s population at 39.96 million, just shy of the 40 million milestone demographers had predicted the state would have passed by now.

#Most populous states in us update#

Note: This is an update of a post originally published on July 11, 2014.SACRAMENTO, Calif. The 2021 total fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa, 4.6 births per woman, is double the global average of 2.3 births per woman and triple the average in Europe and Northern America (1.5) and in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (also 1.5). Growth is expected to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 29% of all the world’s births happened last year. In the UN’s “medium” scenario for future population growth – its middle-of-the-road estimate – the global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100. Including Brazil’s 215 million people puts the world’s seven most populous countries at 51.7% of the global population.

Recent population growth, however, has been faster in the rest of the world than in these nations, meaning that the top six now hold slightly less than half (49%) of the world’s people. In fact, China’s population is greater than the entire population of Europe (744 million) or the Americas (1.04 billion) and roughly equivalent to that of all nations in Africa (1.427 billion).Īs recently as 2015, half the world’s population was concentrated in just six countries – the same as above, with the exception of Nigeria, which was then the seventh most populous country and has since passed Brazil to move into sixth place. The next five most populous nations – the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil – together have fewer people than India or China. And more than half of all people live in just seven countries.Ĭhina has the world’s largest population (1.426 billion), but India (1.417 billion) is expected to claim this title next year.

The world’s population will cross 8 billion in November, according to recently released projections from the United Nations. China has the world’s largest population, but is projected to slide down to second place in the global population ranking in 2023. People shown at a water park in China in 2017.