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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]
Under federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [40] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [41] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [42] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [43]
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.
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). [26] The United States Census Bureau defines the demographic birth boom as between 1946 and 1964 [27] (red). In the years after WWII, the United States, as well as a number of other industrialized countries, experienced an unexpected sudden birth rate jump.
This is a list of the 50 U.S. states, the 5 populated U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia by race/ethnicity. It includes a sortable table of population by race /ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.
"Unfortunately, we're really into a period of backlash," said Matthew Belmont, a Dartmouth College history professor who has studied the demographic trend, despite the 2020 election of Harris as ...
White Americans (sometimes also called Caucasian Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.In a more official sense, the United States Census Bureau, which collects demographic data on Americans, defines "white" as "[a] person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa".
A new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has found that the U.S. public workforce system may be perpetuating racial inequities in employment for Black Americans.