Hispanics are the nation's youngest major racial/ethnic group
The nation’s Latino population has long been one of its youngest. In 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the median age of Hispanics – 28 years – was well below that of the major racial groups and has been so since at least the 1980s. But as with the nation’s population overall, the Hispanic population’s median age has steadily risen since the 1980s, from 22 then to 28 in 2014, a significant change though still the smallest increase in median age among any major racial or ethnic group during that time period. For example, the median age among whites was 43 in 2014, up 12 years since 1980. Among Asians, the median age in 2014 was 36, up eight years since 1980. And for blacks, the median age has risen nine years since 1980 to 33 in 2014.
Hispanics are the nation's youngest  | major racial/ethnic group  | Median age  | 45 years  | White 43  | 40  | Asian 36  | 35  | Black33  | 30  | Hispanic  | 25  | 28  | 20  | 15  | 10  | 5  | 0  | 1980  | 1990  | 2000  | 2010 2014  | Note: Whites blacks and Hispanics Asians include onlythose who aresingle  | race and not Hispanic. Hispanics are ofany race  | Source: and Pew Hispanic. Resea rch Hispanics Centerana are lysis ofany of2010 race and 2014 American  | Community Surveys and 1980, 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses  | (IPUMS).  | "The Nation s Latino Population Is Defined by Its Youth  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 