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WWW.AGRM.ORGMAYJUNE 2016 11 A More Diverse Nation The United States is becoming increasingly diverse when it comes to race The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the U.S. population will be more racially and ethnically diverse by 2060. The nation is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. This means that while the non-Hispanic white population will remain the largest single group no group will make up more than 50 percent of the population. Minorities all but the single-race non-Hispanic white popula- tion are now 37 percent of the U.S. population and are projected to make up 57 percent of the population in 2060. The non-Hispanic white population is projected to peak in 2024 at 199.6 million. Unlike other race or ethnic groups however its population is projected to slowly decrease falling by nearly 20.6 million from 2024 to 2060. The Hispanic population will more than double to 128.8 million in 2060. That means that by 2060 almost one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic up from about one in six today. The black population is expected to increase from 41.2 mil- lion to 61.8 million over the same period. Its portion of the total population should rise slightly to 14.7 percent in 2060. The Asian population is projected to more than double with its share of the nations total population climbing to 8.2 percent. Among the remaining race groups American Indians and Alaska Natives would increase by more than half between now and 2060 with their share of the total population edging up from 1.2 percent to 1.5 percent. The Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander population is expected to nearly double from 706000 to 1.4 million. The number of people who identify themselves as being of two or more races is projected to more than triple from 7.5 million to 26.7 million over the same period.