The projections released today, based on census results and assumptions about future childbearing, mortality and migration, show the minority population of the U.S. will be 235.7 million out of a total of 439 million in 2050. More than half of all U.S. children are expected to be from minority ethnic groups by 2023.
By 2030, after all baby boomers reach retirement age, almost one in five U.S. residents will be 65 or older, the bureau said. There are expected to be 88.5 million people over 65 in 2050, more than double the 38.7 million in the U.S. today, with an estimated 19 million of them over 85, up from 5.4 million today. U.S. White Population Will Be Minority by 2042, Government Says
Thirty one years from now.
If I am here I will be ninety-five. Not going to happen. My family has been in their late nineties when they passed way, but I don’t want to, this old world as I know it will be long gone.
