Facebook Racial Demographics in US
Posted: December 17th, 2009.
Facebook does not ask for your race. But a recent study used the US Census data to predict the race of users from their surnames. For instance, a person with a surname Washington was 89% likely to be black.
Based on this study, here’s the race based split up of Facebook’s 100 million American users
White : 74%
Black : 11%
Latino : 9%
Asian : 6%
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Comments
Comment from Michael
Time April 19, 2010 at 3:20 am
1 thing… Please change “Blacks” to “Black”!
Comment from Anand Srinivasan
Time April 19, 2010 at 3:24 am
Thanks for pointing out, Michael..Have made the correction.
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