New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044Posted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2014-12-17 16:05Z by Steven |
New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044
Brookings Instituion
Washington, D.C.
2014-12-12
William H. Frey, Senior Fellow
Metropolitan Policy Program
New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau indicate that the U.S. population will become “majority minority” in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the population compared with 25 percent for Hispanics, 12.7 percent for blacks, 7.9 percent for Asians and 3.7 for percent multiracial persons. This tipping point will result from two countervailing trends that are projected to continue between now and 2060:…
…These trends underscore the minority driven demographic transformation analyzed in my book Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, which outlines the challenges and opportunities associated with a nation whose youthful, growing minority population is juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining, white population.
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