US Census reveals “faster” increase in Venezuelan migrants

USA had 3.5 million residents who identified themselves as Middle East or of North of Africathe Venezuelans were the fastest growing Hispanic group in the last decade and the chinese and the indians Asians were the two largest Asian groups, according to the United States Census Bureau.

The most detailed data on race and ethnicity to date from the 2020 census was released Thursday, more than three years after the 10-year count that determines political power and the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal funds, and serves to show how the United States has changed in a decade. The delay was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of a new method to protect participant confidentiality.

The Census Bureau says the 2020 census provided more detail than ever about the country’s racial and ethnic groups, offering counts for about 1,550 racial, ethnic and tribal groups, although some tables are not available in smaller geographies for some groups. due to new confidentiality methods.

Population of the Middle East or North Africa

The 2020 census was the first to allow respondents to identify themselves as coming from a country in the Middle East or North Africa — a region also known by the acronym MENA. While there was no separate MENA category in the 2020 census, respondents were encouraged to write their background and if they wrote Jordanian or Moroccan, for example, they could be classified as MENA. The data showed that more than 3.5 million people did so or in combination with another group.

The results come as President Joe Biden’s administration considers updating the country’s racial and ethnic categories for the first time since 1997. For now, MENA residents are classified as white, but they would have their own category under the proposed changes. The process will also combine questions about race and ethnicity into a single query, because some advocates say the current method of asking about race and ethnicity separately often confuses Hispanic respondents.

Hispanic population

Venezuelans were the fastest growing Hispanic group. They almost tripled their number, from more than 215,000 people to more than 605,000 between 2010 and 2020, while fleeing a political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has lasted the entire government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it was granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the United States — which will quickly make them eligible to work.

Mexicans were by far the largest Hispanic group in the United States, with a population of 35.9 million people, followed by Puerto Ricans with 5.6 million people and Salvadorans with 2.3 million people.

White population

Among census respondents who identified as white, English was the most common detailed group written on the form asking people to detail their origins, with 46.6 million people saying they were fully or English. in any combination. They were followed by those who identify as German, with 45 million people, and the Irish, with 38.6 million people.

Black or African-American population

Among the 46.9 million black respondents, the most common response was African American, either alone or combined with another group, with 24.5 million people, when asked about their origins. That response was followed by more or less a tie between Jamaicans and Haitians with more than 1 million people each. Nigerians had the next highest number of responses, with more than 604,000 people, followed by Ethiopians with more than 325,000 people.

Asian population

More than 5.2 million people identified as Chinese, the largest group among respondents who were Asian alone or in combination with another group. They were followed by the Asian Indians with 4.7 million inhabitants, the Filipinos with 4.4 million inhabitants and the Vietnamese population with 2.2 million inhabitants. The Nepalese population was the fastest growing Asian group, growing from nearly 52,000 people in 2010 to almost 206,000 people in 2020. California had the largest proportion of the six most common Asian groups in the United States. New York had the second highest proportion of Chinese residents, while Texas had the second highest proportion of Asian Indian residents.

American Indian and Alaska Native population

For the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the United States, the Cherokee were the largest group alone or in combination with another group, numbering 1.5 million people. The next highest ethnic group was the Aztecs, with almost 584,000 respondents, and the Navajo Indians, with more than 423,000. The Tlingit were the largest Alaska Native group alone or in any combination, numbering more than 22,600 people.

some other race

Almost the 94% of the nearly 28 million respondents who responded “some other race” to the race question were Hispanic, supporting previous research that showed Hispanics are often unsure how to answer the question using current racial categories. Some 1.9 million respondents who chose “some other race” They identified as multiracial or multiethnic, and more than half a million said they were Brazilian, either alone or in combination with another group.

Source: AP