Key facts about the nation’s 47.9 million Black Americans
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.
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.
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.
At least 81 voting members of Congress (15%) are foreign born or have at least one parent who was born in another country.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.
The global middle class consisted of 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic.
The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year.
Today, most Black adults say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions, and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith.
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