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  • January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race

By Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 f

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