The total U.S. population - about 263 million people. If you divide people into three large groups on racial grounds, whites make up about 84% of the population (among them the most outstanding are the diaspora of the Irish, Italians, Jews, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian), Africans (mostly descendants of slaves brought from the African continent in the XVIII century) 12% of the total population is about 26.5 million Asians and Pacific Islanders - about 3%, Amerindian (indigenous people of the United States) - less than 1% came from Latin America, the so-called "Latino" - about 9%.
