The births of white babies outnumbered those of minorities by a hair, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data that also showed that the most common age for whites is 58 versus 11 for Hispanics.
The latest census data, covering up to 2013, showed that there were 2,943 more white babies born than minorities out of a total of 3,942,783.
Census had expected minorities to overtake white births, but the data shows that it hasn’t happened as fast as expected, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the data.
“Birth rate declines were especially steep for immigrant and Hispanic women. Those two groups are among the main drivers of the nation’s demographic future, in which non-Hispanic whites will no longer be the majority. By 2043, the Census Bureau has projected that no racial or ethnic group will account for more than half the total U.S. population,” said Pew.
And the nation is changing in other ways, said a separate analysis of census data.
Pew, for example, found that the “most common age” of whites is 58. For Hispanics, it is just 11.
“U.S. Hispanics were also a notably youthful group, with a median age of 30,” said Pew, adding, “Today, the relative youth of Hispanics is driven by the U.S.-born Latino population, nearly three-quarters of whom were Millennials or younger.”
