Key findings about Black America in 2019
The Black population in the U.S. is diverse and growing. Our analysis explores the demographic characteristics of this population in 2019.
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The Black population in the U.S. is diverse and growing. Our analysis explores the demographic characteristics of this population in 2019.
The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.
The vast majority of religiously unaffiliated Black Americans believe in God and about half pray regularly, although few attend services.
Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
The Census Bureau estimates there were roughly 63.7 million Hispanics in the U.S. as of 2022, a new high. They made up 19% of the nation’s population.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.
Latinos with darker skin color report more discrimination experiences than Latinos with lighter skin color.
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