Table 2-3: Selected Characteristics of the Black Population in the Uni

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu

Table 2-3. Selected Characteristics of the Black Population in the United States

Black Groups	Number^a (in millions)	Percent of U.S. Black Population	Percent of U.S. Population	Native Born (%)	Speak a Language Other Than English at Home and Speak English Less Than "Very Well" (%)	Less Than High School Graduation^b (%)	Poverty Rate (%)
African-American	24.5	67.0	8.6	99.0	c	24.3	23.2
Afro-Caribbean	1.6	4.4	0.6	30.4	c	27.6	15.5
African	1.5	4.2	0.5	68.3	34.2^c	21.2	22.3
Other or no ancestry reported	9.0	24.5	3.1	91.0		38.8	29.8
Total Black	36.6	100.0	12.8	92.8	36.1^c	27.7^d	24.3
Total U.S. population	285.2	12.8	NA	88.9	8.1	19.6	12.4
Blacks speaking Spanish at home	1.5	4.0	0.5	78.7	37.5^c	32.3	30.1
Blacks speaking other Indo-European languages at home	0.9	2.5	0.3	39.6	38.5^c	31.1	20.3
Blacks speaking Asian and Pacific Islander languages at home	0.06	0.2	0.02	67.7	29.8^c	21.1	16.7
Blacks speaking all other languages at home	0.06	0.2	0.02	55.8	28.4^c	22.4	28.7

^a Black race alone and in combination.
^b Population 25 and older (20.8 million).
^c U.S. Census Bureau, 2006b. Calculations using Census data. Black race alone. Population 5 years and older.
^d U.S. Census Bureau, 2006a. Calculations using Census data.

Source: McKinnon and Bennett, 2005, and Subcommittee tabulations from the 2000 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS).

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Internet Citation: Table 2-3: Selected Characteristics of the Black Population in the Uni: Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldatatab2-3.html