Blacks: Demographics

There are 36.8 million Blacks in America, representing 12.8 percent of the total population.
Twenty-five percent of the U.S. Black population lives in these three states: New York, Florida, and Georgia.
Blacks make up over 25 percent of the total population in the following states: Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Alabama.
Native-born Blacks comprise 92 percent of the total Black population. Blacks from Africa and Latin America make up the rest.
The percentage of Blacks living in poverty was 26 percent, double the national average of 12.6 percent.
More than 2 million Black children, ages five years and older, speak a language other than English at home.

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