Race and Ethnicity

Key statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018.

Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.

The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.

As the nation’s economy contracted at a record rate in recent months, the group’s unemployment rate rose sharply, particularly among Hispanic women, and remains higher among Hispanic workers than U.S. workers overall.

Those who have not responded to the census so far are likely to be from groups the census previously has struggled to count accurately.

If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren't counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.

About half of U.S. Hispanics said in our December 2019 survey that they had serious concerns about their place in the country.

A median of 45% across 34 surveyed countries say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values. However, public opinion on this question, as well as the role of God, prayer and religion varies by country, region and economic development.

From 2010 to 2019, the U.S. population increased by 18.9 million, and Hispanics accounted for more than half of this growth.

The U.S. Hispanic population reached a record 60.6 million in 2019, up 930,000 over the previous year and up from 50.7 million in 2010.