White Americans

White Americans
(Various ethnic groups)
Total population
243,832,540 (2018) broadest definition ^[1] 70% of the estimated total U.S. population 234,904,818 (2018) (one race)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
All areas of the United States, less common in California and Hawaii
Languages
Majority languages: English (majority) Spanish See also: languages of the United States
Religion
Majority religion: Protestantism 48% No Affiliation 24% Minorities and other: Roman Catholicism 19% Mormonism 2% Judaism 3% other 3% ^[2]

White Americans are Americans who are white. As of 2010, most Americans belong to this group. In 2010, 70% of the people living in the United States identified as being white or White Hispanics. Non-hispanic whites accounted for about 60% of the U.S. population.

References[change | change source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. December 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
↑ "Religious tradition by race/ethnicity (2014)". The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Retrieved April 5, 2019.

v t e European Americans
Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech German¹ Amish German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Kashubian Liechtensteiner Polish¹ Slovak Sorbian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Armenian⁶ Azerbaijani⁴ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁴ Kazakh⁴ Moldovan Russian Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn
Northern Europe	Danish Greenlandic Estonian Faroese Finnish Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish
Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Cypriot⁶ Croatian Greek Macedonian Montenegrin Romanian Slovene Serbian Alaskan Serbs Turkish⁴
Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sammarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano
Western Europe	Belgian British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots Scottish Welsh Dutch Frisian French Acadian Basque Breton Cajun Canadian Corsican Huguenot Irish Luxembourgian
Other Europeans	White Americans Non-Hispanic whites White Hispanic and Latino Melungeon Métis Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁵ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños French Canadian Acadian Cajun
¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772–1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. ⁵ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans. ⁶ Armenia and Cyprus are located entirely in Asia, but historically have stronger tie with Europe.

White people

Bold refers to countries, regions and territories in which people of European descent and, by some definitions, Middle Eastern and North African descent are the ethnic majority group and/or people categorized as such.

European emigration
by location

Africa	Algeria Angola Botswana Democratic Republic of the Congo Eritrea Ivory Coast Kenya Libya Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Reunion Senegal Seychelles South Africa Tanzania Tunisia Zambia Zimbabwe
Asia	China India Pakistan Philippines Thailand North Asia Central Asia
North America	Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Canada Caribbean Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Trinidad and Tobago United States California Hawaii Maryland Southern U.S.A. Puerto Rico
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Colombia Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Oceania	Australia New Caledonia New Zealand