Among Black adults, those with higher incomes are most likely to say they are happy
Black adults in upper-income families are about twice as likely as those in lower-income families to say they are extremely or very happy.
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Black adults in upper-income families are about twice as likely as those in lower-income families to say they are extremely or very happy.
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.
An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
The number of Black eligible voters in the United States is projected to reach 34.4 million in November 2024 after several years of modest growth.
Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.
More Black Americans say health outcomes for Black people in the United States have improved over the past 20 years than say outcomes have worsened.
About one-in-four Black households and one-in-seven Hispanic households had no wealth or were in debt in 2021, compared with about one-in-ten U.S. households overall.
The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
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