article_snippet: White children will be outnumbered by minority kids in the United States in just five years, new Census Bureau projections reveal.
article_snippet: This is the result of an ongoing trend of declining birth among white Americans and a baby boom among immigrant groups, as well as a surge in immigration.
article_snippet: By the year 2020, 50.2percent of all children in the US are expected to be non-white, according to the Census.
article_snippet: By 2044, whites will be outnumbered by minorities.
article_snippet: In less than five years, minority children will outnumber white ones.
article_snippet: In 14 years after that, more than half of all Americans will be minorities .
article_snippet: And the number of non-Hispanic whites will actually likely to decline over the next 40 years - from 200million and 62percent of the population now to 182million and 44percent of the population in 2060.
article_snippet: The number of people who identified themselves as only black will also decline about 8percent to about 59million.
article_snippet: Even so, the overall population growth of the nation will slow considerably over the next 40 years - as immigrants and the children of immigrants reach higher incomes, immigrants and the children of immigrants reach higher incomes fertility rates will drop - like native-born whites have.
article_snippet: : This chart shows how the portion of whites in America will fall from 62percent to 44percent in the next 40 years .
article_snippet: Immigrant population .
highlights_snippet: By year 2020, 50.2percent of children will be minorities .
  
highlights_snippet: By year 2044, 50.3percent of all Americans will be minorities .