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title: "Are We There Yet?"
description: "This links to a FactTank posting explaining how two government agencies--the Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics--have different answers to the question of whether most U.S. babies are minorities. The agencies use different measures, and different methods."
date: "2014-06-04"
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/2014/06/04/are-we-there-yet/"
---

# Are We There Yet?

The Census Bureau announced two years ago that most U.S. babies being born these days are racial and ethnic minorities, a milestone on the route to a majority-minority nation. But according to data released from the National Center for Health Statistics last week, most U.S. mothers still are non-Hispanic white. [Read more at FactTank.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/06/04/are-minority-births-the-majority-yet/)