There were more recorded deaths than births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in 2012, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau estimates.

The difference was tiny -- there were just 12,400 more deaths than births -- but part of a significant trend toward greater diversity in the United States; demographers predict that white Americans will become a statistical minority by 2050.

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Growing racial and ethnic diversity means that immigrants and young people of color will be in large part subsidizing America's aging population, as USA Today notes: