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Hispanics Surge In Population From Births Not Imigracion

May 1, 2008

  • Hispanics now account for more than 15% of the U.S. population, and their surge is largely the result of births among people already in the country, according to new Census Bureau data.
  • 45.5 million Hispanic population in the U.S. has risen  up from 35.7 million in 2000
  • Hispanics are responsible for half of the U.S. population gains between 2000 and 2007.
  • Between 2006 and 2007, about 62% of the increase in Hispanics came from births.
  • “If you close the borders tomorrow, there is still going to be a large Hispanic increase.”
  • Hispanics control more disposable income than any other minority group. The figure stands at $860 billion a year and is expected to hit $1.3 trillion by 2012, according to Jeffrey Humphreys, who monitors Hispanic demographic and economic trends at the University of Georgia’s Selig Center.
  • Between 2000 and 2007, 16 states — among them West Virginia, Illinois and New Jersey — saw their white population decline, according to the new Census data. Over the same period, whites accounted for a majority of population growth in only 11 states.
  • About two-thirds of Americans are non-Hispanic white, while about 12% are non-Hispanic black, according to the Census Bureau.
  • Hispanic families tend to have more children. The population is also younger on average, so the large number of births isn’t balanced out by deaths. Between July 2000 and 2007, there were 8.4 Hispanic births for every death. African-Americans had 2.4 births per death. The ratio for whites was 1.6.
  • The average white woman in the U.S. has 1.8 children, which is under the replacement rate of 2.1 necessary to maintain a stable population. Hispanic women, meanwhile, give birth on average to 2.8 children.
  • According to the Pew Research Center, whites are projected to make up only 45% of the working-age population in 2050, down from 68% in 2005.
  • The center projects that the share of Hispanics in the working-age population will rise to 31% from 14%. 

FROM WSJ

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