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Population pyramid of the United States in 2023. In recent decades, the fertility rate of the United States has declined below replacement level, prompting projections of an aging population and workforce, [1] [2] as is already happening elsewhere in the developed world and some developing countries. [3]
By 2000, the number of senior citizens had increased to about 35 million (of 280 million US citizens). Population experts estimate that more than 50 million Americans—about 17 percent of the population—will be 65 or older in 2020. [148] By 2050, it is projected that at least 400,000 Americans will be 100 or older. [149]
People who identified as white alone (including Hispanic whites) numbered 204,277,273 or 61.6% of the population, while non-Latino whites made up 57.8% of the country's population. [31] Latino Americans accounted for 51.1% of the country's total population growth between 2010 and 2020. [32]
As the US population ages, the number of people diagnosed with dementia each year is projected to double – from about 514,000 cases in 2020 to about 1 million a year by 2060.
Americans are living longer than they did in 1965, when Medicare was established. Back then, average U.S. life expectancy was about 70; today it’s about 77 and a half—down slightly from a pre ...
Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s. And as Baby Boomers age, that number is expected to ...
It is the only index associated with the age distribution of a population. [ 1 ] Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 18 or less in most Least Developed countries to 40 or more in most European countries, Canada , Cuba , Hong Kong , Japan , South Korea , Taiwan , and Thailand .
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by median age in 2020. [note 1] The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups, one younger than that age and the other older than that age.