Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US, study finds

Change should come around 2045, study of updated US census data predicts, but author says ageing is not race-neutral'

Gen Z Americans - who were born between 1997 and 2012 - will be the last generation with a white majority and will give way to a post-2012 majority minority" Generation Alpha, according to a new study of updated US census data.

That change - when non-Hispanic white people will fall below half as a share of the overall US population - should come around 2045, the study predicts.