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In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial. [2] There is evidence that an accounting by genetic ancestry would produce a higher number. The multiracial population is the fastest growing demographic group in the United States, increasing by 276% between 2010 and 2020. [3]
When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010. Two Princeton sociologists now say that jump was ...
The population of biracial and multiracial people in the U.S. is growing. A comparison of data from the 2000 and 2010 United States Census indicates an overall population increase in individuals identifying with two or more races from 6.8 million people to 9 million people (US Census Data, 2010). [11]
An uptick in births among older women, especially those in their 40s, was only enough to keep the overall number of births in the United States approximately the same as before, close to 3.7 million. [12] About half of the fall in fertility of the United States can be attributed to the secular decline in teenage parenthood. [81]
The same report also revealed that 78% of centenarians were women, while 22% were men. In 30 years however, the male centenarians are expected to increase to 32%, while female centenarians are ...
The vast majority of multiracial people are younger than 44 and a third are still children. The trend has been met by confusion, upset and worse from some of the U.S.'s shrinking white majority.
The U.S., with its slavery-molded history, divides people into Black or white, and nine million people identified as multiracial in 2010. When Harris ran for vice president in 2020, 33.8 million people in the U.S. identified as being more than one race, according to the census.
The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...