WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Non-Hispanic white Americans, which account for the majority of the U.S. population will be minorities by the year 2050, according to a new estimate of the U. S. Census Bureau released on Thursday.
Population projections released by the bureau also show the nation will be substantially older, too, thanks mainly to aging Baby Boomers. The number of non-Hispanic whites will begin declining in the 2030s, according to the census, as white deaths outpace births. Whites will drop to 46 percent of the nation's population by 2050.
During the same period, the Hispanic population will nearly triple to 133 million, almost a third of the projected U.S. population of 439 million in 2050. The percentage of blacks will remain essentially flat. According to the estimates, blacks will drop from 12.2 percent of the population in 2010 to 11.8 percent by 2050. But Asians will grow from 4.5 percent of the population in 2010 to almost 8 percent in 2050. Baby Boomers will be senior citizens by 2030, and the ranks of older Americans will reach new highs. About one of every eight residents was 65 or older in 2008. The number of seniors will reach 88.5 million by 2050, up from 38.7 million in 2008. Seniors 85 and older will see their numbers more than triple, rising from 5.4 million in 2008 to 19 million in 2050.
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