Civilian labor force by age, sex, race, and ethnicity

This table also can be found in the article, "Labor force projections to 2020: a more slowly growing workforce," published in the January 2012 Monthly Labor Review.

Also available as: [XLS]
Table 3.1 Civilian labor force, by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, 1990, 2000, 2010, and projected 2020
[Numbers in thousands]

Age, sex, race, and ethnicity

Levels

Change

Percent change

Percent distribution

Annual rate of change

1990

2000

2010

2020

1990-2000

2000-10

2010-20

1990-2000

2000-10

2010-20

1990

2000

2010

2020

1990-2000

2000-10

2010-20
 

Total, 16 years and older

125,840

142,583

153,889

164,360

16,743

11,306

10,471

13.3

7.9

6.8

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

1.3

0.8

0.7

 

Age, years:

16 to 24

22,492

22,520

20,934

18,330

28

-1,586

-2,604

0.1

-7.0

-12.4

17.9

15.8

13.6

11.2

0.0

-0.7

-1.3

25 to 54

88,322

101,394

102,940

104,619

13,072

1,546

1,679

14.8

1.5

1.6

70.2

71.1

66.9

63.7

1.4

0.2

0.2

55 and older

15,026

18,669

30,014

41,411

3,643

11,345

11,397

24.2

60.8

38.0

11.9

13.1

19.5

25.2

2.2

4.9

3.3

 

Sex:

Men

69,011

76,280

81,985

87,128

7,269

5,705

5,143

10.5

7.5

6.3

54.8

53.5

53.3

53.0

1.0

0.7

0.6

Women

56,829

66,303

71,904

77,232

9,474

5,601

5,328

16.7

8.4

7.4

45.2

46.5

46.7

47.0

1.6

0.8

0.7

 

Race:

White

107,447

118,545

125,084

130,516

11,098

6,539

5,432

10.3

5.5

4.3

85.4

83.1

81.3

79.4

1.0

0.5

0.4

Black

13,740

16,397

17,862

19,676

2,657

1,465

1,814

19.3

8.9

10.2

10.9

11.5

11.6

12.0

1.8

0.9

1.0

Asian

4,653

6,270

7,248

9,430

1,617

978

2,182

34.8

15.6

30.1

3.7

4.4

4.7

5.7

3.0

1.5

2.7

All other groups1

-

1,371

3,694

4,738

-

2,323

1,044

-

169.4

28.3

-

1.0

2.4

2.9

-

10.4

2.5

 

Ethnicity:

Hispanic origin

10,720

16,689

22,748

30,493

5,969

6,059

7,745

55.7

36.3

34.0

8.5

11.7

14.8

18.6

4.5

3.1

3.0

Other than Hispanic origin

115,120

125,894

131,141

133,867

10,774

5,247

2,726

9.4

4.2

2.1

91.5

88.3

85.2

81.4

0.9

0.4

0.2

White non-Hispanic

97,818

102,729

103,947

102,371

4,911

1,218

-1,576

5.0

1.2

-1.5

77.7

72.0

67.5

62.3

0.5

0.1

-0.2

 

Age of baby boomers

26 to 44

36 to 54

46 to 64

56 to 74

Footnotes:
  1The “all other groups" category includes (1) those classified as being of multiple racial origin and (2) the race categories of (2a) American Indian and Alaska Native and (2b) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders.
Note: Dash indicates no data collected for category. Details may not sum to totals because of rounding.

Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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