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The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
About one-half of the Asian American population lived in the West, with California having the most total Asian Americans of any state, at 4.2 million. [33] As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent; [ 33 ] [ note 1 ] Honolulu County had the highest percentage of ...
Mainland – Black Africans 99% (of which 95% Bantu, consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (comprising Asians, Europeans and Arabs); Zanzibar – Arabs, Black Africans and mixed race (2023 estimate) [3]
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
Without immigration, the white population in the U.S. would have declined last year. Immigration also propelled the expansion of the Asian population, which was the fastest-growing race or ethnic ...
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 belong to two or more of the racial categories.
In 1820, the category “Free Colored People” was added to the decennial census to reflect the increase in free Black people. In 1850, the term “Mulatto” was added to the census to capture ...
This is a list of the largest municipalities in the United States by race/ethnicity (80,000+) using 2020 U.S. Census data. It includes a sortable table of population by race/ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.