The Demographic Divide with Carl Haub

Carl Haub from Population Reference Bureau talks about different demographic trends and divide in Europe, the USA and the developing world.

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Carl Haub, Demographer
and Population Reference

Bureau, Washington, D.C.

The demographic divide,
as we call it now,

is something that developed in
the latter half of the past
century,

when population growth shifted almost completely into the

developing countries.

So, today, when we look at
population growth,

it's taking place in Africa,
Asia, Latin America,

but very little - actually,
almost none - is taking

place in Europe today.

Only the United States of
the developed countries

really has significant
population growth,

but even that is due to
immigration,

and also births to new
residents.

Birth to immigrants.

In fact, here in the U.S.

we have our own
population...our own

demographic divide.

Between now and the middle
of the century,

what we used to call - and I
think still do call - the

majority population,
which goes by a fairly

complicated moniker of
white and non-Hispanic,

will not grow at all.

This is the traditional
European heritage

population of the U.S.

It simply stopped growing.

All the population
growth in the U.S.

over the next 40 or 50
years will come from minorities.

Groups we today call
minorities,

and I doubt in 2050 that we'll
be doing the same thing.

In the U.S., about half of
immigrants come from Latin
America.

No surprise.

I mean, it's a neighbor,
and of course, many of

those come from Mexico.

And their labor is needed.

It's needed in
agriculture.

It's needed in construction,

and a lot of other manual labor.

The other half of our
immigration comes from,
basically,

Asia is one of the big sources.

And as is almost always true
with long-distance migrants,

these tend to be well-educated,

professional-type people -
doctors, professors, scientists.

Not all, but for
the majority.

And yes, we still do get
some immigrants from Europe,

and that stream has
not yet stopped.

But that is really who is
changing the face of the U.S. at
the moment,

is you have agricultural
laborers coming from the

nearby countries,

and professional people
coming from further away.