One metric shows that race in America is about to experience a dramatic shiftPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2017-06-27 13:53Z by Steven |
One metric shows that race in America is about to experience a dramatic shift
Quartz
2017-06-27
Dan Kopf, Reporter
San Francisco, California
 Feel the demographic change. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson) |
The demographics of the United States are changing quickly, and there is no simpler way to understand that than to look at the most common age of each race and ethnic group.
The US Census Bureau recently released its estimates of the US population as of July 2016. Besides an estimate of the total population (325 million), the census also includes estimates of the number of people of every age within each race and ethnicity. For example, the census estimates that, as of July 2016, there were 976,288 Hispanic 15-year-olds in the country.
Jed Kolko, chief economist of jobs site Indeed, combed through this data and came away with a fascinating insight. He discovered huge variation in the most common age—more technically, the mode—between each major racial group in the US…
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