Asians, who currently make up 26 percent of the immigrant population in the US, will outnumber Hispanics and become the largest immigrant population in the US by 2055, according to a Pew Research Center report.

The study released in September 2015 noted that the turning point will be in 2055 when 36 percent of the migrants will be from Asia. Now, 47 percent of immigrants in the US are Hispanic, whose number will drop to 31 percent by 2065. Asians, who currently make up 26 percent of the immigrant population, will shoot to 38 percent in five decades, the study that analyzed census data and population projections showed.

No racial or ethnic group will hold a majority in the US, the report found. Whites, currently 62 percent of the country’s overall population, will make up 46 percent of the population in 50 years, Hispanics will comprise 24 percent, Asians will be at 14 percent and blacks at 13 percent. Today, 18 percent of Hispanics, 12 percent blacks and 6 percent Asians constitute America’s population.

“Some 47 percent of US

adults say immigrants from Asia have had a mostly positive impact on American society, and 44 percent say the same about immigrants from Europe. Meanwhile, half of Americans say the impact of immigrants from Africa has been neither positive nor negative,” the report stated.

— China Daily