America gets older and more racially diverse: White Americans are the slowest growing ethnic group and will be a minority by 2040, census reveals

Thursday, June 22, 2017
By Paul Martin

Number of whites increased the slowest – less than one hundredth of 1 percent
That is a fraction of the rates of growth for Hispanics and Asians, census found
Meanwhile, increase in those over-65 matched by boom in kids born since 2001

By RORY TINGLE
DailyMail.com
22 June 2017

America is getting older and more racially diverse as white baby boomers give way to booming numbers of Hispanics and Asians.

Every racial group grew between 2015 and 2016, but the number of whites increased at the slowest rate – less than one hundredth of 1 percent or 5,000 people.

That is a fraction of the rates of growth for Hispanics, Asians and people who said they are multi-racial, according to estimates from the Census Bureau.

The Asian population and those who identified as being of two or more races grew by 3 percent each, to 21 million and 8.5 million, respectively.

Hispanics grew by 2 percent to 57.5 million. The black population grew by 1.2 percent to nearly 47 million.

The number of non-Hispanic whites grew by only 5,000, leaving that population relatively steady at 198 million of the nation’s 325 million people.

Despite the rapid growth in the population of other racial groups, whites will remain in the majority in the U.S. until after 2040.

American taxpayers also face a double-whammy of extra costs as an increasing population of elderly people is matched by a boom in the number of youngsters.

The proportion of the population aged over 65 jumped from 12 to 15 percent from 2001 to 2016, driven by the ageing of the baby boomer generation.

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