United States has 308 million people today; two-thirds are non-Hispanic whites. Census Bureau figures released Wednesday updates last year's calculation that white children would become a marginal in 2023 and the overall white population would follow in 2042. The earlier estimation did not take into account a drop in the number of people moving into the U.S. because of the economic crisis and the immigration policies forced after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The 2050 estimate is one of four projections released that is based on rates for births and deaths and a state of affairs in which immigration continues its more recent, slower pace of adding nearly 1 million new foreigners each year. Demographers said that scenario offers the best look for now at the future demographic makeup based on present conditions, rather than other models which believe higher rates of immigration.
The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.
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