The Latino population has nearly doubled. Here's how it's changed over the last 25 years

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Latinos are the nation’s youngest major racial group with a median age of 31, and 79% are U.S. citizens.

California and Texas are home to more than half the nation’s Latino population, with Mexican and Mexican-origin people making up 57% of the Latino community.

There are around 68 million Latinos living in this country, nearly a twofold increase since 2000, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center .

“The country is very different than it was just 25 years ago. Latinos are now a much larger part of the story,” said Mark Lopez, the director of Pew’s race and ethnicity research. “The Latino story is not happening in isolation. They’ve been a part of it since the coun