West Indian Americans
Appearance
Year | Number |
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1960 | 193,922
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1970 | 675,108
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1980 | 1,258,363
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1990 | 1,938,348
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2000 | 2,953,066
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2009 | 3,465,890
|
West Indian Americans or Caribbean Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to the Caribbean, unless they are of native descent. As of 2016, about 13 million — about 4% of the total U.S. population — have Caribbean ancestry.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ↑ "United States - Selected Population Profile in the United States (West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups) (300-359))". 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2010-03-18.