Table 1.

Ethno- Racial Composition of the U.S. Population: 1970 – 2010 (Percentages)

	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010
White	83.3	79.7	76.0	69.1	63.7
Black	10.9	11.3	11.0	12.1	12.2
Hispanic	4.6	6.4	9.0	12.5	16.3
Asiana	1.2	1.8	3.0	3.7a	4.7a
Native American	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.7
Other	--	0.8	1.0	2.8	2.1
(‘000)	203,302	226,546	248,710	281,422	308,746

Sources: 1970 – 1990 from Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung (2002); 2000 and 2010 from Mather et al (2011)

^aIncludes Hawaiian