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New York City's Population Projections

The NYC government has projected that by 2015 its population will be about 8.5 million people. It anticipates that the population of New York City will reach 8.7 million by the year 2020, and that by the year 2030 it will reach nearly 9.2 million residents.

This increase predicts that between 2000 and 2030 New York City’s population will increase about 13.9 percent.

The report also predicts that by the year 2030 Brooklyn will continue to be the most populated of the five boroughs. Queens will remain in second, Manhattan in third, the Bronx in fourth, and Staten Island in fifth.

New York City Demographics

In New York City, 44 percent of the population is white, 25.5 percent are blacks, and 12.7 percent are of Asian descent. Hispanics of any race represent about 28.6 percent of New York City’s population, while those who are of Asian descent represented the fastest-growing demographic between the years 2000 and 2010. As a whole, the non-Hispanic white population of the city has decreased by about 3 percent; and for the first time since the end of the Civil War, the percentage of blacks in the city has decreased over the span of a decade.

The income disparity between the citizens of New York City is very wide. According to the latest census, the median household income for a wealthy citizen was $188,697 per year, and the poorest median income was reported at $9,320. This city houses the highest number of millionaires and billionaires in the entire world. Moscow, Russia, follows in a close second.

New York City is also going through one of the biggest baby booms in its history. This is a unique number among major cities in the United States, as the number of children under the age of 5 living in the city has increased by more than 32 percent.

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