Caucasian Children Are About to Be a Minority in America

For the first time since the 17th century Caucasian children will be a minority.

Fourth-grade schoolchildren crowd around an emergency kit backpack which each class has during an earthquake drill at Rosemont Elementary School in Los Angeles on October 17, 2013. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

For the first time since the 17th century, Caucasian children are about to be a minority in America.

By 2020, white children will represent less than half of United States population under 18, the Census Bureau estimates.

While non-Hispanic whites constitute about 62 percent of population, their children currently represent  52 percent.

“[A]mong those under age 18, the United States is already nearly a majority-minority nation,” the Census Bureau notes.

Source: New York City Department of Education, Los Angeles Unified School District, Chicago Public Schools, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Clark County School District