Changing Demographics in Georgia

Age

Georgians tend to be younger than the national average

With regard to age, Georgia is a young state. In 2005, only 9.6 percent of the population was 65 years of age or over. The U.S. average is 12.1 percent. In contrast, twenty percent of Florida’s population is 65 and over. There are two primary reasons for Georgia’s young population:

  1. A large portion of Georgia’s population growth is from new, job-seeking residents, many of whom are in their child-bearing years and,
  2. Georgia’s large and growing diverse population tends to be young. For example:

    Median age of all Georgians … 33.4 years

    White Georgians … 36.2 years

    African American Georgians … 29.3 years

    Hispanic Georgians … 24.6 years

    Asian Georgians … 31.0 years

Despite having a young median age, Georgia also has a rapidly growing older-adult population. In the years to come, Georgia is projected to have one of the fastest rates of growth of older adults of any state. From 2000 to 2005, the older-adult population increased from 787,906 to 811,503. That is a 3.2 percent increase in population 65 years of age or over in five years.
(Dependency Ratio Spreadsheet)

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