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According to the U.S. Census 2000, approximately 12.3% of the U.S. population identified as African American.
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According to the U.S. Census 2000, approximately 12.3% of the U.S. population identified as African American.
According to the US census of 2010 the African American population in the US is about 13%. The largest so-called minority population are Hispanics which compose about 15% of the US population.
According to census.gov, the 2008 ACS population esimate of African-American people in the US is 36,969,063 which is 12.4%.
According to the US Census Bureau, about 20% of Virginia's population identifies as African American.
In the United States, about 13.4% of the population identifies as Black or African American, according to the latest census data.
The state of Georgia has a population of 9.68 million people. Of these, 30.6 percent list themselves as black or African American. The white population is 60.8 percent, and the Asian population is 3.3 percent.
As of the 2010 census, 69.4 percent of Colorado's population is white. 4.4 percent of the population is African-American, 1.6 percent is Native American, 3.0 percent is Asian, 0.2 percent is Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 2.8 percent of the population is two or more races, 21 percent is Hispanic or Latino.
Approximately 5.9% of the US population is Asian American according to the latest Census data.
African-American people are citizens of the United States with total or partial ancestry from Africa. In 2010, there were 38.9 million African-Americans in the U.S., constituting about 12.5 percent of the population.
There are approximately 35,000 African American millionaires in the United States. People who identify themselves as black or African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the total population.