US is growing. That’s a fact. It is a nation of 300 million! It’s madeup of many nations blended together. I think that the most amazing thingabout the US: the ability to mix many nations and races, and still have a safeenvironment. I came across a great article on Yahoo: what US iscomposed of, and what it will look like in the future. A good read –link below.
I extracted some interesting parts from the article:
- The US population moves past 300 million- expected to happen in the next few days
- There will be 400 million Americans in 2043
- 2050, non-Hispanic whites will have dwindled from 69percent to a bare majority of 50.1 percent
- Hispanic will have doubled to 24 percent
- Asians also will have doubled to 8 percent of thepopulation
- African-Americans will have edged up to 14 percent
- Americans are expected to continue to gravitate west andsouth
- the West and South have been growing two to three timesas fast as the Northeast and Midwest
- A person born in 1967, when the population turned 200million, could be expected to live 70.5 years.
- Life expectancy for those born today is 77.8 years
- As the US moves toward 400 million people, Americans can beexpected to marry later in life, and more of them will live alone.
- Between 1970 and 2005, the median age of first marriagemoved from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 26 for women.
- the percentage of single-person households grew from 17percent to 26 percent
Reference
Thenext 100 million and the face of America, Yahoo News
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