About 101,000 Americans are ages 100 and older as of 2024. This population is expected to grow to about 422,000 by 2054, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Today, women and White adults make up the vast majority of Americans in their 100s.
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Regarding your story link on centenarians: rather than saying the vast majority are White, it should read that Whites (89.7% in 1920, but only 77% of centenarians) and Blacks (9.9% of 1920 population, but only 8% of centenarians) are significantly underrepresented compared to their percentage of the US population in 1920. And that Asians (0.2% of the 1920 population; 7% of centenarians) and Hispanics (1.2% of the 1920 population; 6% of centenarians) are hugely overrepresented compared to their 1920 populations.
I do realize that the effect of immigration is bound to have been quite significant especially for the Asian and Hispanic numbers.
In a country where a significant majority are White, and especially in 1920 where the vast majority were White, wouldn't we expect the vast majority of centenarians to be White. Anyway, good luck to us all joining them.
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