Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

The 2030 U.S. Census will include new race and ethnicity checkboxes for Hispanic people and people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, the Office of Management and Budget announced ...

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 ... the complexities of how people identify their race ...

Two sociologists from Princeton University argue that the public was misled by 2020 census' multiracial boom findings.

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) ...

The U.S. Census ... The United States' largest statistical agency said in a statement this week to The Associated Press that millions more people reported multiple responses to the race question ...