</span>The United States population grew by 0.77 percent in 2015. The U.S. entered 2016 with an estimated population of 322,762,018<span> according to an end-of-year estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning that we added more than 2.4 million people to the population over the course of the year. </span><span> Answer:</span><span>322,762,018</span><span>