POP1 Child population: Number of children (in millions) ages 0–17 in the United States by age, 1950–2022 and projected 2023–2050 (2024)

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How many 16 and 17 year olds are in the US? ›

There were 72.5 million children in the United States in 2022, which was 0.4 million less than in 2021.

The number of children in the United States continues to grow, reaching 74 million in 2021, and accounts for 22% of our nation's population. For the second consecutive year, children of color constituted the majority of all children in the United States at 50.6%.

By comparison, the younger population under age 18 numbered 73.1 million, or 22.1% of the U.S. population in 2020, a 1.4% decrease from 74.2 million in 2010.

In 2022, there were about 25.8 million children between the ages of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States. On the other hand, there were about 22.4 million children between the ages of zero and five years old in the country.

This statistic depicts the age distribution in the United States from 2012 to 2022. In 2022, about 17.96 percent of the U.S. population fell into the 0-14 year category, 64.91 percent into the 15-64 age group and 17.13 percent of the population were over 65 years of age.

Data shown in this report are based directly on the counts of all (unweighted) birth records received and processed by the National Center for Health Statistics as of February 14, 2023. for the United States in 2022 was 3,661,220, a nonsignificant decline from the number in 2021 (3,664,292) (Tables 1–3 and Figure 1).

Today, there are more than 2.2 billion children on Earth. Nearly two billion of these live in a developing country.

In 2021, there were around 3.66 million live births in the United States.

How many families with children are there in the United States? ›

United States had 33.2 million households with children in 2021. The indicator recorded a growth of 0.3% in 2021 compared to the previous year. Between 2010-2021, the indicator in the United States decreased by 5.6%.

In 2021, 54.2 million students were enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade. Of these students, 26.1 million, or 48.1 percent of the total, were White (Table 1). This percentage ranged from 46.9 percent in kindergarten to 48.7 percent in high school.

Now there are 1,9 billion children in the world, but they are but 27% of world population. In 2050 there will still be an estimated 1.9 billion kids, but they will be only 20% of world population.

White Americans constitute the majority of the 332 million people living in the United States, with 71% of the population in the 2020 United States Census, including 61.6% who identified as 'white alone.

In 2022, around 20.3 percent of teenagers between ages 16 and 19 were employees while enrolled at school in the United States. This is an increase from the previous year, when 19.4 percent of teenagers were working while in school.

In the United States as of 1971, minor is generally legally defined as a person under the age of 18. However, in the context of alcohol or gambling laws (see legal drinking age and gambling age), people under the age of 21 may also sometimes be referred to as minors.