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Did you know?

• The median age for most Americans is 36 years and climbing.

• The median age for Latinos is 24 and dropping. In some parts of the United States the median age for Latinos is 18 years.

• In 1994, 11.4 percent of all Hispanics were under the age of 5 years. Also, 36 percent of Hispanics were younger than 18 years of age, compared to 24 percent of non-Hispanics.

• The Hispanic population grew seven times as fast as the rest of the nation's population during the 1980s.

• Today, Latino children are the second-largest group of children in the United States, second only to non-Hispanic white children.The number of Hispanic children has increased faster than that of any other racial and ethnic group, growing from 9 percent of the child population in 1980 to 16 percent in 1999.

• By 2020, it is projected that more than 1 in 5 children in the United States will be of Hispanic origin.

• If all U.S. Latinos were in one country, the total population would be larger than Canada. The combined buying power of the Latino community is $300 billion. Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race.