The R code below can replicate this chart. You can get help installing R here.

You can get help with the tidycensus data retreival package here.

You can get help with the gganimate package here.

# Load R packages


library(tidycensus)
library(tidyverse)
library(gganimate)

# Get Data


population <- get_estimates(geography = 'state',
                             product = 'characteristics',
                             breakdown = c('SEX', 'AGEGROUP', 'HISP', 'RACE'), 
                             state = 'WA',
                             breakdown_labels = TRUE,
                             time_series = TRUE)

# Wrangle Data



p <- population %>%
  filter(
    SEX == 'Both sexes',
    str_detect(AGEGROUP, '^Age'),
    HISP == 'Both Hispanic Origins',
    RACE == 'All races',
    DATE %in% c(3,10)
  ) %>%
  mutate(
    year = DATE + 2007
  ) %>%
ggplot() +
  geom_bar(aes(x = AGEGROUP, y = value), stat = 'identity', position = 'identity') +
  #facet_wrap(~RACE5,nrow = 2) +

  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::comma) +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = -90, hjust = 0, vjust = .5)) +
  labs(
    title = 'Estimated Population by Age - Washington',
    subtitle = 'Year: {closest_state}',
    y = '',
    x = '',
    caption = paste0('Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates, Data retreived on ', Sys.Date(), ', created by @StephenHolz')
    ) +
  transition_states(year, transition_length = 1, state_length = 2) +
  ease_aes('linear')

animation <- animate(p,
  width = 800,
  height = 600
  )

anim_save(
  file.path('2017-WA-population-estimates-by-race-ethnicity-age.gif'),
  animation = animation
)