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Title: Explaining Why Minority Births Now Outnumber White Births
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: The nation’s racial and ethnic minority groups—especially Hispanics—are growing more rapidly than the non-Hispanic white population, fueled by both immigration and births. This trend has been taking place for decades, and one result is the Census Bureau’s announcement today that non-Hispanic whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S. for the first time. The bureau reported that minorities—defined as anyone who is not a single-race non-Hispanic white—made up 50.4% of the nation’s population younger than age 1 on July 1, 2011. Members of minority groups account for 49.7% of children younger than age 5, the bureau said, and for 36.6% of the total population. The findings are included in the bureau's first set of national population. . .
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Authors: Passel, Jeffrey S.; Livingston, Gretchen
Publisher: Pew Research Center
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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