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[Statistics / Statisticians] recently released from the USA's Census Bureau have shown how demographics in the U.S. [is / are] changing. The figures show that white children in the country are [let / set] to become a minority [within / without] the next year or two. It was [reveled / revealed] that currently, 49.9% of American children under the age of five are from [non-white / nine white] backgrounds. Asians and Hispanics will soon become the new majority ethnic [groups / group] in the country. The Bureau gave two main reasons for this [trendy / trend] . One is that birth rates among minority populations [are / is] growing faster than those in the white community, especially in the Hispanic community. The second is the [steadily / steady] number of immigrants arriving in America.

The Bureau also reported that for the first time [even / ever] , deaths [outnumbered / outnumbers] births among whites, in the period [from / between] July 2011 and July 2012. [During / Among] this time, the Hispanic population grew by 2.2 per cent and the number of Asians [arose / rose] by 2.9 per cent. Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Hispanic Center says the changes in the [makeup / cosmetics] of the U.S. population will have a global [impact / compact] . He said: "The U.S. Hispanic population is second [once / only] to Mexico's." He noted that the current U.S. Latino population is larger than [them / those] in Peru, Colombia and Spain. He added: "That's something which has an incredible implication not only in the U.S., but as [part / partner] of a larger Hispanic world."

 


 
 

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