Over a million of the 46.9 million respondents who identified as black and who took part in the most recent US population census are Jamaican.
The data are included in the recently released 2020 US Census, which the US Census Bureau claims has the most thorough race and ethnicity data to date.
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According to the US Census Bureau, there will be counts for around 1,550 racial, ethnic, and tribal groups in the 2020 census.
When questioned about their ethnic backgrounds, 24.5 million African Americans—who make up the majority of black people in the country—selected it either on its own or in combination with another group.
With 1,047,117 people claiming to be Jamaican alone or in combination with another ethnicity, Jamaicans make up the majority of black immigrants. With 1,032,737 respondents choosing Haitians as their only or combined ancestry, they are a close second. Following Nigerians, who received more than 604,000 responses, came Ethiopians, who received more than 325,000.
The black immigration group with the fastest growth rate is African. According to the Pew Research Center, the population of black African immigrants increased by 246 percent between 2000 and 2019, going from about 600,000 to two million.
As a result, according to the research center, people of African ancestry now account for 42% of the total foreign-born black population, a significant rise from 23% in 2000.
