When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people.

U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic.

(AP Photo/Donald King, file)The U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years from 2019 to 2020, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau — a trend that demographers say provides a glimpse of the coronavirus pandemic’s toll. Population growth in the U.S. already was stagnant over the past several years due to immigration restrictions and a dip in fertility, but coronavirus-related deaths exacerbated that lethargic-growth trend, said William Frey, a senior fellow at The Brooking Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. “I think it’s a first glimpse of where we may be heading as far as low population growth," Frey said. Among the states, Idaho had the largest single-year population increase, growing 2.1% to 1.8 million residents. Sixteen states lost population, including California, the nation’s most populous state, which declined 0.18% to 39.3 million residents.

Millennials and their younger siblings and children now make up a majority of the U.S. population. The Brookings' analysis of population estimates released this summer by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the combined millennial, Generation Z and younger generations numbered 166 million people. To many Americans especially baby boomers themselves this news may come as a shock. Now, the oldest millennial is 39, and with their numbers exceeding those of baby boomers, the millennial generation is poised to take over influential roles in business and government." Squeezed between the boomers and millennials, Generation Xers were born in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Since 2010, the number of whites who aren't Hispanic had dropped by more than 16,600 people. Non-Hispanic whites are expected to be a minority of the U.S. population in about 25 years. Over the past decade, Asians had the biggest growth rate of any demographic group, increasing by almost 30%. “The first Baby Boomers reached 65 years old in 2011,” said Luke Rogers, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Branch. “No other age group saw such a fast increase."