---
title: "New Census Figures Raise a Good Question"
description: "This is a brief description of a posting on FactTank about new Census Bureau population estimates that show deaths among non-Hispanic whites exceeded births in 2012."
date: "2013-06-14"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/06/14/new-census-figures-raise-a-good-question/"
---

# New Census Figures Raise a Good Question

The finding that made headlines from this week’s Census Bureau release of [new national and state population estimates](http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb13-112.html)—that there are now more deaths than births among non-Hispanic whites—is a vivid illustration of the rapid long-term growth in the number of older Americans. [Read more at FactTank](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/06/14/why-there-are-more-deaths-than-births-among-whites/).[ ](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/06/14/why-there-are-more-deaths-than-births-among-whites/)