Politico
By Nick Gass
September 28, 2015
In
the next half-century, no racial or ethnic group will make up a
majority of the American population, and the share of foreign-born
Hispanic immigrants will drop, as
Asian immigrants become the largest such group in the United States by
2055.
That's
according to new findings released Monday in Pew Research Center's
latest analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and population projections
through 2065, which found
that the U.S. will be home to more than 78 million immigrants.
If
current demographic trends continue, immigrants and their progeny will
account for 88 percent of the U.S. population increase from 2015 to
2065, an increase of 103
million people in a projected population of 441 million. Currently, the
U.S. population is estimated to be more than 321 million. Without
immigration growth between now and 2065, the U.S. population in 50 years
will be around 338 million.
According
to the Pew study's findings, 47 percent of U.S. immigrants are Hispanic
as of this year, but that share is projected to drop to 31 percent by
2065. By 2055,
Hispanic immigrants will no longer be the majority in terms of
foreign-born Americans, and by 2065, Asians are expected to make up 38
percent of the foreign-born population.
By
2065 as well, Pew also projects that the share of foreign-born blacks
and whites will increase slightly to 29 percent, up from 26 percent.
As
a percentage of overall population, however, Hispanics will still
represent a larger share, at 24 percent, up from 18 percent in 2015.
Asians' share of the population
will increase to 14 percent, while it is currently at 6 percent.
Non-Hispanic whites, meanwhile, will drop to 46 percent of the overall
population by 2065.
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