Several media outlets reported Friday, that the Census estimates “for the first time” whites are no longer the majority of births, despite the fact that the U.S. Census has made that claim every year since 2012 only for it to be debunked by the official government statistic.

By their own admission the U.S. Census is not primary source for birth data.

Despite the Census’ estimates, in 2015 as has been the case in every prior year, non- Hispanic whites were a majority of births in the U.S. according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s preliminary birth data for last year.

According to the CDC report released on June 2, white births accounted for 53.5 percent, Hispanics were 23.2 percent, blacks were 14.8 percent, Asians were 7 percent, and Native Americans counted for just one percent.

Last year, America saw a decline in the overall number of births by about 11,000. It was however, the first year since 2007 that the number of births by Hispanic mothers increased.

Despite the media’s obsession with reporting about Latino’s rising population, the number of children born to Hispanic mothers has declined by about 13 percent or 150,000 annually since 2007. The largest Latino community to see their birth numbers decline has been Mexican-Americans who have a 24 percent drop in their birthrate.