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Population
48.4 million
The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2009, making people of Hispanic origin the nations largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 16 percent of the nations total population. In addition, there are approximately 4 million residents of Puerto Rico, a Carribbean U.S. territory. Source: Population estimates www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/
and www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb09-199.html
More than 1 of every two people added to the nations population between July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, was Hispanic. There were 1.4 million Hispanics added to the population during the period. Source: Population estimates
3.1%
Percentage increase in the Hispanic population between July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, making Hispanics the fastest-growing minority group. Source: Population estimates
132.8 million
The projected Hispanic population of the United States on July 1, 2050. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 30 percent of the nations population by that date.
Source: Population projections www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/012496.html
22.4 million
The nations Hispanic population during the 1990 Census.
Source: The Hispanic Population: 2000 www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-3.pdf
2nd
Ranking of the size of the U.S. Hispanic population worldwide, as of 2009. Only Mexico (111 million) had a larger Hispanic population than the United States (48.4 million). Source: International Data Base www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbsum.html and population estimates www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/
66%
The percentage of Hispanic-origin people in the United States who were of Mexican background in 2008. Another 9 percent were of Puerto Rican background, with 3.4 percent Cuban, 3.4 percent Salvadoran and 2.8 percent Dominican. The remainder was of some other Central American, South American or other Hispanic or Latino origin. Source: 2008 American Community Survey www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/users_guide/index.htm
About 44 percent of the nations Dominicans lived in New York City in 2008 and about half of the nations Cubans in Miami-Dade County, Fla. Source: 2008 American Community Survey
26%
Percentage of children younger than 5 who were Hispanic in 2009. All in all, Hispanics comprised 22 percent of children younger than 18. Source: Population estimates
27.4 years
Median age of the Hispanic population in 2009. This compared with 36.8 years for the population as a whole. Source: Population estimates
107
Number of Hispanic males in 2009 per every 100 Hispanic females. This was in sharp contrast to the overall population, which had 97 males per every 100 females.
Source: Population estimates
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