U.S. Child Population Increasingly More Diverse

In 2013, there were 74 mil­lion chil­dren liv­ing in the Unit­ed States, com­pris­ing 23% of the nation’s total pop­u­la­tion. As the child pop­u­la­tion grew from 1990 and 2013, mov­ing from 64 mil­lion to 74 mil­lion, it also became more diverse racial­ly and eth­ni­cal­ly. The per­cent­age of white chil­dren declined from 69% to 52%, while the per­cent­age of Lati­no chil­dren dou­bled from 12% to 24%. In order to ensure the long-term pros­per­i­ty of the coun­try, all chil­dren need to have equal oppor­tu­ni­ties to suc­ceed and become active, engaged citizens.

New demo­graph­ic data is avail­able for the nation, states and the Dis­trict of Colum­bia in the KIDS COUNT Data Cen­ter. Review the fol­low­ing indicators:

• Total pop­u­la­tion by child and adult populations
• Child pop­u­la­tion by gender
• Child pop­u­la­tion by sin­gle age
• Child pop­u­la­tion by age group 
• Child pop­u­la­tion by race
   
• Adult pop­u­la­tion by age group 
• Adult pop­u­la­tion by race
   
• Child pop­u­la­tion by nativity
• Chil­dren by fam­i­ly nativity
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies by parent’s region of origin
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies who are U.S. citizens
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies in which res­i­dent par­ents are not U.S. citizens
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies whose res­i­dent par­ents have been in the coun­try five years or less