by 2030 and later would have become even older than it is today and will be in 2030. Were it not for the racial minorities countering this aging of the U.S. population has become and will become in the years ahead. Hispanics and the other racial minorities will be the country’s main demographic engine of population change in future years this is the most significant demographic change Americans will see. Indeed white old people, compared to minority old people, will continue to be in the majority until some years after 2060. Among all the young people now in the U.S., there are more minority young people than there are white young people.Īmong old people age 65 and over, whites are still in the majority. However, on the first day of 2020, whites under age 18 were already in the minority. So between now and 2030, whites as a proportion of the population will get smaller, and the minority race groups will all keep getting bigger.Įventually, whites will become a minority, dropping below 50% of the U.S. The percentage of black and Asian Americans will also grow significantly. What will the country look like racially in 2030? Whites will have dropped to 55.8% of the population, and Hispanics will have grown to 21.1%. Today, after whites, the Hispanic population is the next biggest group at 18.7% of the U.S., followed by blacks and Asians. population has been dropping since 1950 and it will continue to go down. In my research with the demographer Rogelio Saenz, we have shown that the white share of the U.S. In 2020, non-Hispanic white people, hereafter called whites, are still the majority race in the U.S., representing 59.7% of the U.S. Lots more college students will be raising their hands when they are asked that question in 2060. In my classes of 140 or more students, no more than maybe six raise their hands. I sometimes ask my undergraduate students how many of them have ever actually seen a person 100 years old or older. In the year of 2046, the first group of surviving baby boomers will reach 100 years, and that’s when U.S. By 2030, there will most likely be over 130,000 centenarians in the U.S.īut this increase of centenarians by 2030 is only a small indication of their growth in later decades. Census Bureau, the number of centenarians in the U.S. population today and how many are there likely to be 10 years from now?Īccording to demographers at the U.S. A lot of these new elderly will be baby boomers.įor example, take the really old folks – people over the age of 100. The numbers of young people will have grown just a little to 76.3 million, but the numbers of old people will have increased a lot – to 74.1 million. Ten years from now, there will almost be as many old folks as there are young ones. There are 56.4 million people age 65 and older. Today, there are over 74.1 million people under age 18 in the U.S. is getting older and it’s going to keep getting older. China and India will still be bigger, but India with 1.5 billion people will now be larger than China, with 1.46 billion. population will have almost 350 million people. is the third largest country in the world, outnumbered only by the two demographic billionaires, China and India, at just over 1.4 billion and just under 1.4 billion, respectively. population today, at the start of 2020, numbers just over 331 million people. Projections show that whites will decline the number of old people will increase and racial minorities, mainly Hispanics, will grow the most, making them the main engine of demographic change in the U.S. Census Bureau and from the Population Division of the United Nations. I am a demographer and I have examined population data from the U.S. will grow the most, and which groups will not grow as much, or maybe even decline in the next 10 years? 1, 2030? Which demographic groups in the U.S. What does our country look like today, and what will it look like 10 years from now, on Jan. has just entered the new decade of the 2020s.
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