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Topic: 2050: It's gonna be a good year!
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bigcitygal
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posted 14 August 2008 06:38 AM
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Racial and ethnic minorities in the USA will become a majority in 2042, but the working-age population — those 18 to 64 — will cross that threshold three years earlier, the projections say. By 2050, minorities will make up 55% of the working-age population. The share of the population that is working-age will drop steadily, from 63% to 57% in 2050. (snip) In 2050, the working-age population will be 30% Hispanic, 12% non-Hispanic black and 8% non-Hispanic Asian. Today, the breakdown is 15% Hispanic, 12% black and 5% Asian.
Multicultclassics Story in USA Today What do things look like for Canada, you ask? One in five Canadians will be what Statscan deems a "visible minority" by the year 2017. I can't find Canadian projections that go as far as 2050. quote:
In 2017, approximately 20% of the Canadian population might belong to a visible minority groupPrimarily because of sustained immigration and the low percentage of Europeans among newcomers, the visible minority population in Canada has soared in the past two decades. Between 1981 and 2001, the number of persons belonging to a visible minority group almost quadrupled, from 1.1 million to approximately 4.0 million. This growth, much faster than that of the rest of the population, boosted the proportion of the population that visible minorities represent from less than 5% in 1981 to more than 13% in 2001. Under the reference scenario of the most recent projections of visible minorities, this increase will continue in the coming years, with the result that in 2017, the visible minority population would reach 7.1 million, representing approximately one Canadian in five.
From statcan.ca [ 14 August 2008: Message edited by: bigcitygal ]
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