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The median age for Hispanics was 25.9 years, while the median age for the entire U.S. population was 35.3 years, the highest median age in our nation’s history.
Median age also varied among the different Hispanic-origin groups. Mexicans had a median age of 24.2 years; Puerto Ricans 27.3 years; Central Americans 29.2 years; Dominicans 29.5 years; South Americans 33.1 years, Spaniards 36.4 years; and Cubans 40.7 years.
While 26 percent of the U.S. population was under 18 years of age in 2000, 35 percent of Hispanics were less than age 18.
