USA - Number 300 Million: Latino newborn Los Angeles boy? - by Deborah Zabarenko
The U.S. population topped 300 million at about 7:46 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 39 years after the 200 million mark was reached on Nov. 20, 1967.
"The demographers will tell you I clearly didn't fit the statistics of what ... the 200 millionth should have been," said Robert Woo, who drew a media spotlight as No. 200 Million when he was born. Now a Harvard-educated attorney, Woo said he would be relieved to pass the torch to No. 300 Million, but added that no one person could personify the U.S. population. "It's such a diverse country that it would be impossible to find a typical or average state, town or neighborhood that would represent the country -- trying to identify an individual would be just impossible," Woo said in a telephone interview.
The United States is the only major industrial nation whose population is substantially increasing. Only China the EU and India have more people.
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