New data also shows how the population of children is going down, while the population of elderly Americans is rising.

For centuries, America has been a desired destination. But as the nation approaches its 250th birthday, under President ...

The two counties with the highest share of Hispanic and Latino residents in 2024 were Saluda County in the Midlands, an hour ...

Study urges rethinking race in science but politics, misinterpretation may obscure key finding: Self-reported race a poor proxy for genetics Skip to Main Content Manage alerts for this article ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has projected that non-Hispanic whites will make up less than 50 percent of the population by 2044, a change that almost certainly will recast American race relations and ...

U.S. Census. The United States’ decennial census, which enumerates the entire resident population, ... The 2010 census asked only basic questions about age, gender, race, ethnicity, household ...

Among the major ethnic or racial identities in the United States—white, black, Asian, Native American—Latino is the most amorphous. Latino people can be African, Mesoamerican, Asian, or white.

Older adults now outnumber children in almost half of the counties in the U.S., new data released Thursday from the Census ...

Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) "All of Us" Research Program ...

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