Legend

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

♀ ♂ KEY DESCRIPTION Two or more Races Two or more Races Hawaiian NHPI: Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone Asian Asian alone

Native AIAN: American Indian and Alaska Native alone Black Black or African American alone

White White alone

Resources and Inspiration

I have great interest in population trends and statistics. I like to observe and analyze population pyramids from different countries and how they are affected by war, famine, disease, or economic development. I thought it would be interesting to add race as an extra variable to the US pyramid. This population pyramid was inspired by the 2018 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, 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.

According to 2017 National Population Projections, "Hispanic origin is considered an ethnicity, not a race. Hispanics may be of any race". Therefore, Hispanics are not depicted in this pyramid. Further information at NP2017_D1: Projected Population by Single Year of Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin for the United States: 2016 to 2060. To see the population pyramid with Ethnicity as a variable please go to Population Pyramid by Age, Sex, and Ethnicity.

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

I thought the best way to do this race pyramid, was to make a stacked bar. This way I could add an extra variable to the population pyramid. Not just sex and age, also RACE. Made by Luz K. Molina.

Created using d3.js.