Population Decline - Declines Within Race or Ethnicity

Declines Within Race or Ethnicity

See also: Minority-Majority

Some large and even majority groups within a population have shown an overall decline in numbers while the total population increases. Such is the case in California, where the Non-Hispanic Whites population declined from 15.8 million to 14.95 million, meanwhile the total population increased from 33 million to over 37 million from 2000 to 2010 censuses. In Western Europe, the population of people of local origins have been in absolute decline for a number of years while total populations have shown increases.

Populations of certain ethnic groups worldwide has slowed down considerably while others have increased. In particular, 5 groups: Non-Hispanic European North Americans (~230 million), European Brazilians (~90 million), Native Europeans (~700 million), Japanese (~128 million), Chinese (~1380 million), and Koreans (~73 million) population growth rates have declined sharply to very modest growth, and all these groups are expected to see population declines in the next 20–30 years, if they aren't seeing them already. Ethnic Thais (~65 million) are also expected to follow not far behind, although their cousins the ethnic Lao birth rates still in the high range.

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