The real HIPAA enforcement agency is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Complaints are filed with the OCR, and they are responsible for administering, investigating and enforcing the HIPAA privacy standards.
1 The population of the United States is estimated at 322,583,006 as of July 1 2014. 2  United States' population is equivalent to 4.45% of the total world population. 3  The U.S. ranks number 3 in the list of countries by population. 4  The population density in the U.S.A. is 34 people per Km2.
The first part of the statement -- the U.S. share of the worldâs population -- is pretty much correct. The U.S. has a population of 319.4 million while the global population is about 7.2 billion, according to the Census Bureau. That works out to a 4.4 percent share of the worldâs population.