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Statistics released from the USA's Census Bureau have shown how in the U.S. are changing. The figures show that white children in the country are to become a minority the next year or two. It was revealed that , 49.9% of American children under the age of five are from non-white backgrounds. Asians and Hispanics will soon become the new majority groups in the country. The Bureau gave two reasons for this . One is that birth rates among minority populations are growing than those in the white community, especially in the Hispanic community. The second is the number of immigrants arriving in America.

The Bureau also reported that for the first time , deaths outnumbered births whites, in the between July 2011 and July 2012. During this time, the Hispanic population grew by 2.2 per cent and the number of Asians by 2.9 per cent. Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Hispanic Center says the changes in the of the U.S. population will have a global . He said: "The U.S. Hispanic population is only to Mexico's." He noted that the U.S. Latino population is larger than those in Peru, Colombia and Spain. He added: "That's something which has an implication not only in the U.S., but as of a larger Hispanic world."

 


 
 

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