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Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [ 1 ] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American / Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who ...
On March 10, 2022, the Census Bureau released estimates of total overcount and undercount by demographic characteristic. [153] The results found that the total Hispanic population had likely been undercounted by 4.99%, the Black population by 3.3% and Some other race by 4.34%. [153]
The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.
On April 1, 2020, the United States had a population of 331,449,281, according to the 2020 United States census. [ 31 ] The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook estimated as of 2018 [update], [ 5 ] unless otherwise indicated. Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues.
The Population Estimates Program (PEP) is a program of the U.S. Census Bureau that publishes annual population estimates and estimates of birth, death, and international migration rates for people in the United States. [1] In addition to publishing those aggregate estimates for the entire country, the program also publishes those yearly ...
This was almost triple the 2000 census' estimate of a population of 1.2 million Arab Americans, based on the "Ancestry" question rather than the racial category question. [45] That number may have been an under count however, as 19% of the American population provided no answer for the "Ancestry" question.
According to 2022 US Census Bureau one-year estimates, California's population by race (where Hispanics are allocated to the individual racial categories) was 38.9% White, 15.5% Asian, 19.5% Other Race, 5.4% Black or African American, 1.3% Native American or Alaskan Native, 0.4% Pacific Islander, and 19.0% Mixed race or Multiracial.