Increasing diversity of America's youth: Hispanics leading the way
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 12:02
in Health & Medicine
Diversity is increasing among America’s youth because of unprecedented population increases of minority children, particularly Hispanic, as well as a significant decline in the number of non-Hispanic white children, according to research. Most of the growth in the minority child population between 2000 and 2012 was attributable to Hispanic births; more than 95% of Hispanic children under the age of 5 were U.S. born. Indeed, three-fourths of the entire Hispanic population gain between July 2011 and July 2012 came from natural increase -- the difference between births and deaths -- rather than immigration. And this trend will likely continue.