Whites to become minority in US by 2060

6 Mar, 2015 15:48 IST|Sakshi
Whites to become minority in US by 2060

More than half of the US children in 2020 will be from minority communities. According to US Census Bureau report Whites will no longer make up the majority of the population.

The agency also says the overall US population will grow older and grow more slowly in coming years, the report said. By around 2020, more than half of the nation's children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group, the Census Bureau said, putting Americans under the age of 18 at the front of a trend that will see the overall population follow suit some 20 years later.
Overall, the US population is set to grow more slowly over the next few decades partly because of declining fertility rates. It's expected to hit 400 million by 2051, it said. Another finding states that from 2014 to 2060, the working-age population is projected to decrease from 62 per cent to 57 per cent of the total population.
The Census Bureau emphasised in their report that their data does not include factors that might influence the levels of population components, policy decisions for example, such as President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration which may prove to skew future statistics.
According to the report, the total US population is projected to increase by 98.1 million between 2014 and 2060, from an estimated 319 million to 417 million respectively. By 2030, all baby boomers will have reached age 65 or older. The per cent of foreign born is expected to increase each decade, its rate of growth projected to outpace that of natives. By 2044, the US population as a whole is expected to become majority-minority. The native population is expected to increase by 62 million, or 22 per cent between 2014 and 2060, whereas the foreign-born population is expected to increase by 36 million, or 85 per cent, reaching approximately 78 million, it said. By 2060, the nation's foreign-born will reach nearly one in five of the total population,from 13 per cent in 2014 to 19 per cent. Also by the year 2060, an estimated 36 per cent of children (people under age 18) will be single-race non-Hispanic White, compared with 52 per cent today, the report added.

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