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.
