as well as falling birthrates<\/a>, the US Census Bureau figures show.<\/p>\nIn 1980, the US was 80% white, but that figure is expected to drop to 47% by 2050 and 44% by 2060.<\/p>\n
New York is among 16 states expected to have a non-white majority population \u2014 most for the first time \u2014 by 2050. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
At the state level, some of the shifts are even more striking.<\/p>\n
In 2000, just three states \u2014 California, Hawaii and New Mexico \u2014 had less than a 50% white population.<\/p>\n
Hawaii has never had a majority white population, while in the 2000 US Census, the white population was 46% in California and 45% in New Mexico.<\/p>\n
The Empire State will be 46% white by 2050, according to the latest census projections. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
Then by 2020, according to the most recent census, the white population in Maryland also had dropped to 47%, 46% in Nevada and 40% in Texas.<\/p>\n
Now the next two decades are set to see further drastic demographic shifts.<\/p>\n
By 2050, an additional 10 US states are forecast to see white people become a minority.<\/p>\n
Illinois is set to be 49% white by 2050. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n
They include New York, where the white population will drop to 46%, New Jersey at 37%, Connecticut, 45%, Delaware, 47%, Florida, 39%, Georgia, 37%, Arizona, 43%, Illinois, 49%, Oklahoma, 49%, and Washington, 49%.<\/p>\n
The forecast trends are set to continue, too, with white people becoming a minority or close to a minority in a total of 24 states by 2060.<\/p>\n
Some of those shifts involve Alaska, where white people will drop to 50% of the population by 2060, Louisiana at 51%, Massachusetts, 46%, Minnesota, 51%, Mississippi, 51%, North Carolina ,49%, Rhode Island, 47%, and Virginia, 47%.<\/p>\n
Between 2040 and 2050, the percentage of non-white people is expected to overtake the number of white people for the first time in the US. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n
Connecticut also is projected to a non-white majority population for the first time in the next two decades. Connecticut Public Broadcasting via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The data reflect the staggering changes that have taken place across the US since 1980.<\/p>\n
The least ethnically diverse state in the US is West Virginia, where 89% of the population was white in 2020. By 2050, that figure is set to only decrease marginally to 86%.<\/p>\n
This is how many states look set to change in the next few decades:<\/p>\n
Alaska<\/p>\n
2020: 58%. 2030: 57% 2040: 54%. 2050: 52%. 2060: 50%<\/p>\n
Arizona<\/p>\n
2020: 53%. 2030: 51%. 2040: 47%. 2050: 43%. 2060: 39%<\/p>\n
California<\/p>\n
2020: 35%. 2030: 31%. 2040: 27%. 2050: 23%. 2060: 20%<\/p>\n
Connecticut<\/p>\n
2020: 63%. 2030: 57%. 2040: 51%. 2050: 45%. 2060: 39%<\/p>\n
Delaware<\/p>\n
2020: 59%. 2030: 55%. 2040: 51%. 2050: 47%. 2060: 44%<\/p>\n
Florida<\/p>\n
2020: 52%. 2030: 47%. 2040: 43%. 2050: 39%. 2060: 36%<\/p>\n
Georgia<\/p>\n
2020: 50%. 2030: 45%. 2040: 41%. 2050: 37%. 2060: 33%<\/p>\n
Hawaii<\/p>\n
2020: 22%. 2030: 29%. 2040: 28%. 2050: 27%. 2060: 25%<\/p>\n
Illinois<\/p>\n
2020: 58%. 2030: 57%. 2040: 53%. 2050: 49%. 2060: 45%<\/p>\n
Louisiana<\/p>\n
2020: 56%. 2030: 56%. 2040: 54%. 2050: 53%. 2060: 51%<\/p>\n
Maryland<\/p>\n
2020: 47%. 2030: 42%. 2040: 36%. 2050: 31%. 2060: 26%<\/p>\n
Massachusetts<\/p>\n
2020: 68%. 2030: 63%. 2040: 57%. 2050: 51%. 2060: 46%<\/p>\n
Minnesota<\/p>\n
2020: 76%. 2030: 71%. 2040: 65%. 2050: 58%. 2060: 51%<\/p>\n
Mississippi<\/p>\n
2020: 55%. 2030: 55%. 2040: 53%. 2050: 52%. 2060: 51%<\/p>\n
Nevada<\/p>\n
2020: 46%. 2030: 40%. 2040: 34%. 2050: 28%. 2060: 23%<\/p>\n
New Jersey<\/p>\n
2020: 52%. 2030: 47%. 2040: 42%. 2050: 37%. 2060: 32%<\/p>\n
New Mexico<\/p>\n
2020: 37%. 2030: 34%. 2040: 31%. 2050: 28%. 2060: 26%<\/p>\n
New York<\/p>\n
2020: 52%. 2030: 52%. 2040: 49%. 2050: 46%. 2060: 43%<\/p>\n
North Carolina<\/p>\n
2020: 60%. 2030: 59%. 2040: 56%. 2050: 53%. 2060: 49%<\/p>\n
Oklahoma<\/p>\n
2020: 61%. 2030: 59%. 2040: 54%. 2050: 49% 2060: 44%<\/p>\n
Rhode Island<\/p>\n
2020: 69%. 2030: 64%. 2040: 58%. 2050: 53%. 2060: 47%<\/p>\n
Texas<\/p>\n
2020: 40%. 2030:35%. 2040: 31%. 2050: 27%. 2060: 23%<\/p>\n
Virginia<\/p>\n
2020: 59%. 2030: 57%. 2040: 54%. 2050: 50%. 2060: 47%<\/p>\n
Washington<\/p>\n
2020: 64%. 2030: 60%. 2040: 55%. 2050: 49%. 2060: 44%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Non-whites are set to become the majority for the first time in the US by 2050, a situation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15100,95494,9,24,55,54,56,17133,58],"class_list":["post-244499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-census","tag-demographics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-population","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}