Gen Z Americans – who were born between 1997 and 2012 – will be the last generation with a white majority and will give way to a post-2012 “majority minority” Generation Alpha, according to a new study of updated US census data.
That change – when non-Hispanic white people will fall below half as a share of the overall US population – should come around 2045, the study predicts.
Projections of the nation’s demographic makeup, including age structure and race-ethnic composition, also show that the fastest population growth is occurring among the older population while the youth population declines.
