Utah is expected to be 20 percent minority by 2010 when the nation will be 36 percent minority, according to figures provided by University of Utah demographer Pam Perlich. Salt Lake County is expected to be 30 percent minority by 2010.

A Census Bureau report released today said minority groups will add up to a majority of Americans by 2042, but it did not make such projections for Utah nor other states.

Two-thirds of Utah's minorities are Latinos, a group whose numbers swelled by 105,000 to reach 306,500 between 2000 and 2007, according to a Census Bureau report released last week.

Utah's foreign-born population exceeded 210,000 by 2006, according to Perlich and the committee, and 75,000 to 100,000 of those are undocumented immigrants.

Utah's population is about 2.6 million.