---
title: "Census: Minority Births Not Quite the Majority Yet"
description: "This links to a FactTank posting about new Census Bureau population estimates by age, race and Hispanic origin for 2013. It finds that the decline in U.S. births after the onset of the Great Recession, especially among Hispanics, slowed the national shift to a majority-minority youth population. Although the Census Bureau said two years ago that minorities were the majority among newborns, the new numbers no longer show that."
date: "2014-06-26"
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/2014/06/26/census-minority-births-not-quite-the-majority-yet/"
categories:
  - "Racial & Ethnic Shifts"
---

# Census: Minority Births Not Quite the Majority Yet

Minorities make up a larger share of the youngest Americans than of older Americans, but are not yet a majority even among newborns, according to new Census Bureau population estimates for 2013. The nation's transition to a majority-minority youth population was slowed by the sharp decline in U.S. births, especially among Hispanics, following the onset of the Great Recession. [Read more at FactTank.](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/06/26/falloff-in-births-slows-shift-to-a-majority-minority-youth-population/)