Fastest-growing age group: 55-64
September 24, 2007
Americans age 55-64 will be this decade's fastest-growing age group, expanding nearly 50 percent from 2000 to 2010. Poised to create a "senior tsunami" beginning in 2011, this group will be more highly educated, have more professional women and exhibit more household diversity than previous generations entering retirement age. --The Brookings Institution, "Mapping the Growth of Older America"