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Changing face of America: Nonwhites and Hispanics now make up majority of people under age 16
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Changing face of America: Nonwhites and Hispanics now make up majority of people under age 16, as census data shows non-Hispanic whites could become a minority in 25 years
The US Hispanic population has risen by 20 per cent within the last 10 years
Census Bureau figures show the number of non-Hispanic whites are declining as deaths surpassed births and immigration to US slows down
Minority groups are growing in size with Asian population seeing the biggest increase in the past decade by almost 30 per cent
The senior citizen population has also increased by more than a third as the Baby Boomer generation ages into the demographic
By KAREN RUIZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 00:11 EDT, 25 June 2020 | UPDATED: 15:44 EDT, 25 June 2020
Nonwhites and Hispanics made up the majority of people under age 16 in the US for the first time in 2019, as new Census Bureau figures show the nation has grown more ethnically and racially diverse over the last decade.
Data released on Thursday show a demographic shift in the United States that could see non-Hispanic whites become a minority in about 25 years.
According to the figures, the white population is on the decline as the number of deaths have exceeded births among the group and white immigration to the US has slowed down.
Meanwhile, minority groups continue to grow in size with the Asian population seeing the biggest increase of any demographic in the past decade by almost 30 per cent.
Almost two-third of that growth was driven by international migration.
The Black population grew by almost 12 per cent over the decade, and the white population increased by 4.3 per cent.
The Hispanic population has risen by 20 per cent since 2010, with almost three-quarters of that growth coming from a natural increase that comes when more people are born than die.
'We are browning from bottom up in our age structure,' said William Frey, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.
'This is going to be a diversified century for the United States, and it's beginning with this youngest generation.'
Since 2010, the number of whites who aren't Hispanic had dropped by more than 16,600 people.
But the decline has been escalating in the past three years, with the number of non-Hispanic whites falling by more than a half million people from 2016 to 2019, according to the Census Bureau population estimates.
In 2019, a little under 40 per cent of the total US population was either nonwhite or Hispanic.
A natural decrease from the number of deaths exceeding births, plus a slowdown in immigration to the US, contributed to the population drop since 2010 for non-Hispanic whites, whose median age of 43.7 last year was by far the highest of any demographic group.
If these numbers hold for the 2020 census being conducted right now, it will be the first time since the first decennial census in 1790 that there has been a national decline of whites, Frey said.
'It's aging. Of course, we didn't have a lot of immigration, that has gone down,' Frey said. 'White fertility has gone down.'
In fact, the decrease in births among the white population has led to a dip in the number of people under age 18 in the past decade, a drop exacerbated by the fact that the much larger Millennial cohort has aged out of that group, replaced by a smaller Generation Z.
US COUNTIES WITH LARGEST RACIAL/ETHNIC POPULATIONS
WHITE
LARGEST POPULATION: Los Angeles County, California, with 7,371,934 people in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Maricopa County, Arizona, up 14.5% or 486,545, since 2010 which was the largest growth of any county in the nation.
BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN
LARGEST POPULATION: Cook County, Illinois with 1,276,728 people in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Harris County, Texas, where it grew by 158,289 (19.2%) since 2010
HISPANIC
LARGEST POPULATION: Los Angeles County, with 4,881,970 in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, increasing by 103.5% (22,250) since 2010
ASIAN
LARGEST POPULATION: Los Angeles County, with 1,716,196 in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Forsyth County, Georgia increasing by 230.2% or 27,977 between 2010 and 2019
NATIVE HAWAIIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER
LARGEST POPULATION: Honolulu County, Hawaii, with 244,496 in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Clark County, Nevada, with the largest numeric population growth (1,583) between 2018 and 2019.
AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE
LARGEST POPULATION: Los Angeles County, California, had the largest American Indian or Alaska Native population 229,594 in 2019.
LARGEST GROWTH: Maricopa County, Arizona with an increased of 36,025 (27.7%) between 2010 and 2019.
Source: US CENSUS BUREAU
U.S. OVER 65 POPULATION GROWS AS BABY BOOMERS AGE
The United States' senior citizen population has drastically increased since 2010 as the Baby Boomer generation ages into the demographic.
The first Baby Boomers reached 65 years old in 2011 and the age group has grown rapidly since, Luke Rogers, chief of the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Branch said.
'No other age group saw such a fast increase.'
The number of seniors has grown by more than a third, or by 13,787,044 within the last ten years, and is up by 3.2 per cent, or 1,688,924, from last year.
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