What are the demographics percent of ethnicities?

Racial categories

What are the race percentages?

As of 2019, here is the current distribution of the U.S. population by race and ethnicity:

• White: 60.1% (Non-Hispanic)
• Hispanic: 18.5%
• Black: 12.2%
• Asian: 5.6%
• Multiple Races: 2.8%
• American Indian/Alaska Native: 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander: 0.2%

What percent of the US population is white?

72.0%
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes majority of the people in the United States: as of 2019: it numbers about 236,475,401, or 72.0% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites totaled roughly 191,697,647, or 57.8% in the 2020 Census.

Which is the largest racial group in the United States?

Nationally, the largest racial demographic groups as of 2017 were: 1 White Non-Hispanic: 60.6 percent 2 Black Non-Hispanic: 12.3 percent 3 Asian Non-Hispanic: 5.5 percent 4 American Indian/Alaska Native Non-Hispanic: 0.7 percent

What is percentage of students of two races in school?

Data for Two or more races are omitted from this figure; 99 percent of students of Two or more races were enrolled in schools where less than 25 percent of the students were of their own race. Data reflect racial/ethnic data reported by schools.

What does percent of cases missing race / ethnicity mean?

Percent of Cases Missing Race/Ethnicity Data is the share of total cases reported in a state for which race/ethnicity is not known. Some states do not update race/ethnicity information as frequently as the count of total cases for that state, which may increase the percent of Cases Missing Race/Ethnicity Data.

Are there large slices of unexplained ethnicity?

There can be fairly large slices of completely unexplained ethnicity. For example, Scandinavia at 8-12% and even more perplexing, Italy and Greece. All I can say is that there must have been an awful lot of Vikings buried in the DNA of those other populations.