Our Future, Together

Who will replace the Baby Boomers?

Just as explorers use a compass and architects a blueprint, demographers use pyramid charts to read the tea leaves: What groups are aging  or booming with youth  , and what do these shapes tell us about the changing American workforce? Baby Boomers, the largest generation of Americans, will continue to retire in unprecedented numbers, and today, one in four young people are from immigrant families. By 2030, immigrants and their children will play a big part in reshaping our workforce and filling the roles left by the Boomers.

The interactive tool below allows you to explore the changes in workforce distribution of various generations and racial or ethnic groups between 1990 and 2030. The maturity of a group decides its shape. Play through the “Key Groups” to see an animation of the biggest shifts currently taking place.

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