Black Americans who weren’t Hispanic had a median age of 35.5. Hispanics were the youngest, with a median age of 30 and a quarter of all children in the U.S. Non-Hispanic whites were the oldest cohort, with a median age of 44.5. The median age varied widely by race and ethnicity. Since the census didn’t ask about sexual orientation, it didn’t capture LGBTQ+ people who are single or don’t live with a partner or spouse. households contained coupled partners or spouses who lived together, and same-sex households made up 1.7% of those households. The tally showed that more than half of U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. Thursday’s data release was delayed by almost two years because of pandemic-related difficulties gathering the information and efforts by the Census Bureau to implement a new, controversial privacy protection method that uses algorithms to add intentional errors to obscure the identity of any given respondent. The Census Bureau released two earlier data sets from the 2020 census in 2021: state population figures used to decide how many congressional seats each state gets and redistricting numbers used to draw political districts. The decline stems from women delaying having babies until later in life, in many cases to focus on education and careers, according to experts, who noted that birth rates never recovered following the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Also, fewer children were born between 20, according to numbers from the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. jumped from 37.2 to 38.8 over the decade.Īmerica’s two largest age groups propelled the changes: more baby boomers turning 65 or older and millennials who became adults or pushed further into their 20s and early 30s. Combined, the trends mean the median age in the U.S. The declining percentage of children under age 5 was particularly noteworthy in the figures from the 2020 head count released Thursday. The share of residents 65 or older grew by more than a third from 2010 to 2020 and at the fastest rate of any decade in 130 years, while the share of children declined, according to new figures from the most recent census.
The United States grew older, faster, last decade.
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