The Influence of Race on Employment Status and Earnings of African Immigrant Men in the United States

Table 1

Distribution of the African immigrant male population (all ages) by race, 1980–2008.

	Black		White		Other		Total
Year	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
1980	42,940	35.0	69,340	56.5	10,360	8.4	122,640	100.0
1990	117,393	51.1	97,551	42.4	14,897	6.5	229,841	100.0
2000	288,019	57.7	129,179	25.9	82,285	16.5	499,483	100.0
2008	565,421	71.8	183,473	23.3	39,037	5.0	787,931	100.0
Annual growth rate between 1980 and 2008 (%)	43.46		5.88		9.89		19.37

Source: compiled from IPUMS data sets.
Note: some percentages do not sum to 100.0 due to rounding.