With the white population shrinking, Hispanics account for the majority of the population gains in the United States.
That doesn't seem too bad, until you notice that those above the middle class – just 0.5% of the population – gained an astonishing $687bn over the same period.
According to the bank's survey, in the 15 years of Putin's tenure of Russia, the middle class (assessed as those owning $18,000-180,000 18,000-180,000 4.1% of the populandon) gained $137bn in assets.
With new county-level census population estimates due out this week, demographers will track not just the population gains and losses but the components of change: births, deaths and the movement of people.
It is also unclear if the gains will go mostly to Republicans, since more than three-quarters of the population gains in the last decade were members of minorities, populations that tend to vote for Democrats.
David McCorquodale, the head of retail at KPMG, said China will soon overtake the US to become the world's biggest online market and sales will continue to grow as more of the population gains access to the internet.
Whites, who account for 9% of the population, gained 42% of the degrees awarded in 2007, almost exactly the same proportion as blacks, who are nearly ten times more numerous.Much of this discrepancy is to do with history.
So taking his cue from President Bush's success in tapping the Latino vote in states like Texas and Florida, and from 2000 census figures that underscored the population gains of Latino communities, there is Mr. Pataki struggling with Spanish on television advertisements and running with a Latina, Dora Irizarry, the Republican candidate for attorney general.
Even with the population gains, unemployment has plummeted from a peak of 12.2% in 2010 to a recent 5%.
The trend in interactive advertising in China will continue as e-commerce develops in China and more of the population gains access to the Internet.
