The world's population is projected to be 7.8 billion people on New Year's Day 2022, according to the US Census Bureau.

That represents an increase of 74 million people, or a 0.9% growth rate from the first day of 2021.
In the New Year, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, estimated the statistical body.

China continues to be the world's most-populous country with 1.4 billion people. With 1.38 billion people, India is the second most populous country which is set to China by 2025.

Meanwhile, the population of the United States grew by nearly 707,000 people over the past year, and the nation's population is expected to be 332.4 million residents as of January 1, 2022.

Starting in the new year, the United States will have one more person every 40 seconds, calculating births, subtracting deaths and adding net international migration.

The US is expected to register one birth every nine seconds and a death every 11 seconds, as well as an additional person from international migration every 130 seconds.