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. 2020 Aug 13;6(3):26–28. doi: 10.32481/djph.2020.08.008

Table 2. Percentages of active physicians in USA by race/ethnicity compared to the percentage of US population by race/ethnicity and the percentage of primary care physicians by race/ethnicity in Delaware compared to percentage of Delawareans by race/ethnicity.

United States
Race/Ethnicity Percentage of active physicians in the USA (2018)9 Percentage of USA population10
Non-Hispanic Black 5% 13%
Hispanic/Latin 5.8% 18.3%
American Indian, Alaskan native, Native Hawaiian, and pacific Islander 0.4% 1.5%
Asian 17. 1% 5.9%
Non-Hispanic White 56.2% 60.4%
Delaware
Percentage of primary care physicians in Delaware11 Total population of Delaware by percentage10
Non-Hispanic Black 6.6% 23%
Hispanic/Latin 4.4% 9.5%
Asian 22.6% 5.9%
White 66.7% 61.9%