America is aging. Americans are living longer but having fewer children, and the country's population growth can be largely attributed to immigration, much of it Hispanic. We've known this for a while — earlier reports have estimated that whites would become a minority in the U.S. by the year 2050 — but exactly how, where and at what rate these changes are happening has largely been a matter of conjecture.
On May 26, the U.S. Census bureau released two reports. One is an extensive study of the Hispanic population while the other details the slowing down of the U.S. population growth rate. The U.S. has a new median age of 37 years, up from 35 in 2000 and 33 in 1990.
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Robert Groves - Director of the United States Census Bureau, a sociologist, and research professor in survey methodology.
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