Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are nearly twice the median age of the U.S. population. AP Photo In a recent poll, 67% of ...

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics. By Azeen Ghorayshi Births in the United States increased by ...

Generation Z will be the last generation of Americans with a white majority, according to census data. The nation’s so-called majority minority arrived with Generation Alpha, those born since about ...

Demographers say that a growing number of Americans identify as more than one race, and that the number will continue expanding in the decades ahead. By Julie Bosman Robert Gebeloff and Ethan Singer ...

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality, saying it is jeopardizing the usability of ...