The U.S. Census ... The United States' largest statistical agency said in a statement this week to The Associated Press that millions more people reported multiple responses to the race question ...

The 2020 census results described a rapidly growing multiracial population in the United States ... The federal government is revising its race and ethnicity categories, merging the questions ...

“So the 2020 census produced a sudden jump in the multiracial count and a precipitous decline in the count of the white ...

The U.S. government changed how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity in early 2024 to more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.

Roughly two millennia later, the United ... their race and ethnicity. These terms mean different things to different people (see box for selected dictionary definitions). The Census Bureau does ...