In about a generation, the United States will be a little darker — skin color that is.

Minorites will become the majority by 2042, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Minorities, now roughly one-third of the U.S. population, are expected to become the majority in 2042, with the nation projected to be 54 percent minority in 2050, the bureau said in a press release Wednesday. The bureau expects that minorities will make up 54 percent of the country’s population, the 65-and-older age group will more than double from 38.7 million to 88.5 million, making up more than 20 percent of the U.S. population, and Hispanics would account for 30 percent of the population’ the bureau said. The reason: The non-Hispanic single-race White population will lose its place as the majority by 2042 because of an expected rise in deaths in the 2030s. The Census Bureau defines minorities as everyone except for non-Hispanic, single-race Whites.