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The Data was gathered from Population Projections Datset by the US Census Bureau.

According to 2017 National Population Projections, "Hispanic origin is considered an ethnicity, not a race. Hispanics may be of any race". Therefore, I made a separate pyramid for Ethnicity. Further information at NP2017_D1: Projected Population by Single Year of Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin for the United States: 2016 to 2060. For a detailed Pyramid by Race go to this link.

The code for the stack bar was obtained from ywwhack's block.

Created using d3.js.

Inspiration

This population pyramid was inspired by the resent news about the USA being a Minority Majority country. Also by news stating the US had more minority children than white children. With all this talk about race and ethnicity, I wanted to see and display how these new trends look like. Also show how much they will change the composition of the USA population. Therefore, I looked into the US population projection for the next 50 years and made it into an animated pyramid.

I thought the best way to do this ethnicity pyramid, was to make a stacked bar. This way I could add an extra variable to the population pyramid. Not just sex and age, but ETHNICITY.

Made by Luz K. Molina