U.S. centenarian population is projected to quadruple over the next 30 years
The number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades.
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The number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades.
A record 22 million Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
The share of Gen Z voters who are Hispanic is significantly higher than the share among other groups of voters.
Three-in-ten Millennials live with a spouse and child, compared with 40% of Gen Xers at a comparable age.
The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group.
Migration, racial or ethnic self-identity, and marriage were among the many topics explored at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting last month.
Millennials trail Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in the number of households they head. But Millennial-run households represent the largest group in some key categories, such as the number in poverty or the number headed by a single mother.
The nation’s largest annual demography conference, the Population Association of America meeting, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how climate change affects migration.
From trust in government to views of climate change, here are some of Pew Research Center’s most memorable findings of the year.
To get a sense of how the country’s racial demographics are changing, take a look at the differences between mixed-race Americans old and young.
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