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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
how can this be? my math may be off... but if 8.4 million children compose 11.4 percent of all american children, then wouldn't that mean that there are roughtly 77.3 million children in the U.S.? Given that there are close to 294 million U.S. citizens in total, this would seem to indicate that 1 in 4 citizens are considered children.
either my math or this stat is way off.
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http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet...SF1_U&-_sse=on
Here are the age stats from the american factfinder census website:
Under 5 years 19,175,798
5 to 9 years 20,549,505
10 to 14 years 20,528,072
15 to 19 years 20,219,890
with a grand total of: 80,473,265 million americans who are 19 or under. Out of 281,421,906 americans total that's about 28% of the population. Maybe the figures are different because they use population estimates in between actual census years.
I don't know how many 19 year old american there are, but this seems to indicate that your math and the stat are accurate, give or take. If anything, acording to these figures, 11.4% should be more than 8.4 million.