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300,000,000
October 17, 2006The US joined an elite club today.
The 300 million in population club.
China is the president and India...the Vice Prez/Treasurer
That's it. They are the only two other countries in the entire world with a population that large.
It's not an exact science...but the Census Bureau figures that we crossed the 300,000,000 mark Tuesday morning.
The U.S. Census Bureau figured the U.S. population would reach 300 million at 6:46 CST Tuesday. The bureau uses a formula that includes one birth being recorded in the U.S. every seven seconds and one death every 13 seconds. The formula also includes immigration adding one person every 31 seconds.
In actuality...given the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border (yes, they are counted in our population)...we could have reached that number last week...or it could be a few more days. It doesn't really matter.
The simple fact is more people are being born than dying. So that's good I guess. Unless those kids are being born to drug addict, welfare gathering teenage moms, which also seems to be a never-ending trend.
It's just kind of humorous to me that we marked this milestone in local news and media all over the country. I mean there are still places where you can literally be the only person for miles around. Look at the population densities of some of the western Texas counties.
If you take the total acreage of the USA (minus Alaska) and divide it equally to our newly reached population, you'd have about 6.5 acres to yourself.
A family of 4 would have a sweet sizable lot of nearly 30 acres. All those people packed into New York City wouldn't know what to do with themselves on six acres. Farmers in the Midwest would probably shoot themselves on that small a parcel.
Even if you put all the land of the cities in the mix, we'd still end up with nearly 4 acres apiece.
I'm calling dibs on the foot of a mountain in Colorado.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 10:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
