The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is:

The fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is:

a) baby boomers.

b) minorities.

c) young people under 25.

d) people over 85.

Answer: b) minorities.

The so-called ‘minority’ people – people of colour, migrants and first-generation Americans is at present one of the rapidly proliferating sections in the U.S. Further statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau reveal that the minority population in America will likely keep on growing at a very fast rate particularly due to factors such as Apparent Minority Births and Immigration. The diversity of the population by then has been projected and it shows that the minority will have outdone the non-Hispanic whites by 2045. This demographic change raises many critical concerns for the attainment of social objectives, especially in education, health, shelter, employment, political participation, and cultural integration in society.