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US population by ethnicity (2019) - Black or African American alone, percent(a) 13.4% - American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 1.3% - Asian alon
by jollofricepeas 6y ago
US population by ethnicity (2019)
- Black or African American alone, percent(a) 13.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 1.3%
- Asian alone, percent(a)5.9%
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.2%
- Two or More Races, percent 2.8%
- Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 18.5%
SOURCE:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoYou have not provided any data on how many qualified applications they get from each ethnicity. You've basically said nothing.
- newfriend 6y agoIs there some reason you specifically omitted the White category? - White alone, percent 76.3%
- code_sloth 6y agoAre there any ethnicity statistics (or estimates) on actual applicants to yale? It's apples vs oranges when we compare to the US population.
- naveen99 6y agoIt’s hard to find global numbers by these categories, but I think world class universities should look at global numbers rather than usa only numbers... if they are going to look at demographics at all. if you look at global numbers, caltech demographics may be pretty close to being proportional representation.
- rbecker 6y agoThe US makes up about 4% of the global population. So it would only makes sense to expect Yale to be close to global representation if only about 4% of its students were from the US. And I'm sure there are many world-class universities in India, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey... Are they pretty close to proportional if you look at global numbers? For example, Kyoto University or Peking University, both world class institutions, does their student body reflect the global population, or the Japanese/Chinese population?
- naveen99 6y agoWhat I mean is us is a melting pot / magnet for upward social mobility. So I expect in the long run, the annual cohort of bright children would be proportionally represented here in the top Private universities / companies. Or... I expect the demographics of hn users to be more similar to global demographics rather than us demographics.