An Aging America: Older Adults Will Outnumber Children for the First Time in U.S. History

A new forecast from the U.S. Census Bureau predicts people 65 and older will soon outnumber children for the first time in American history, reports the Daily Mail . The agency estimated that one in every five Americans will be retirement age by 2030, while deaths will "rise substantially" between 2020 and 2050, signifying naturally slow population growth. Bureau researchers expect older adults to outnumber children by 2035. Other projected trends include the shrinkage of the nation's non-Hispanic white-alone population from 199 million in 2020 to 179 million in 2060.