What is the percentage of black Americans in the American population?

By the end of 20 17, 1, black Americans accounted for 13.2% of the American population.

The population of the United States is 324 million, and non-Hispanic whites account for 62.1%; Latinos account for 17.4%, Africans account for 13.2%, Asians account for 5.4%, mixed-race children account for 2.5%, American Indians and Alaska natives account for10.2%, and Hawaiian natives or other Pacific islanders account for 0.2%.

Black Americans include:

1. Descendants of African slaves brought to the United States by European colonists in history.

2. Black immigrants and their descendants. It accounts for about 13.2% of the total population of the United States, and one third of them are mulatto (such as Obama), and English is widely used.

Extended data:

The history of African-Americans can be traced back to16th century when the United States became a European colony. From 16 to 19, European colonists transported a large number of slaves from Africa (mainly from West Africa, Congo and Angola) to America, and more than half of them were transported to the United States today, mainly working as coolies in cotton and sugar cane plantations and mines in southern States, and were brutally exploited and abused by white racists.

With the development of American industry, blacks in the south moved to cities in the north and northwest. 186 1 ~ 1865 after the civil war, although slavery was abolished in law, blacks were still discriminated and oppressed by race, and the atrocities of the Klan seriously threatened their lives.

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