WASHINGTON — As the U.S. population ages and becomes more racially diverse, the country is seeing a widening demographic gap between older whites and young minorities — a shift with significant social and economic implications for the future.

Non-Latino white Americans made up almost 79 percent of the country’s population of people older than 65 as of July 2013, but the white share of residents younger than 15 slipped further to 51.8 percent, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data released Thursday.

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