NEW YORK TIMES: … By 2050, 83.7 million Americans will be 65 or older, compared with 43.1 million in 2012, the report said. Fewer than 10 percent were older than 65 in 1970.
The report said the graying of the country would occur even as the population was projected to grow 27 percent — to 400 million in 2050 from about 314 million — and as minorities were expected to eclipse the non-Hispanic white population.
“International migration of people 18 to 64 have helped keep the nation younger, and that trend is expected to continue,” said Jennifer M. Ortman, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Projections Branch and an author of the study… (more)
