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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Statistics Tell Some Kind of Story About Race in America= BBC


27 November 2014 Last updated at 11:33 ET

US race relations: Six statistics

Violent protests have taken place in several US cities, sparked by a jury's decision not to charge a policeman over the killing of an unarmed black teenager.

The death of Michael Brown, 18, in Ferguson, Missouri, on 9 August has reignited the debate about race relations in the US. Here are six statistics that help tell the story.

2
black billionaires
Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan

There are only two black billionaires in the US - chat show host Oprah Winfrey and former basketball star Michael Jordan. This compared with about 500 white billionaires.

9.8%
have a bachelor's degree
Graduates of Bowie State University
Black students appear to do well in High School - just over 30% get their diploma, compared with 27% of white students. But less than 10% complete a bachelor's degree, compared with 14.4% of whites graduate.

75%
of white Americans have only white friends
People in a park
A survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in 2013 asked a range of questions to assess how diverse people's friendship groups were. It found that while 65% of black Americans reported only having black friends, 75% of white Americans said they had only whites in their social circle.

10.9%
black unemployment
People queue at a job fair in Chicago, 2012
Unemployment remains far higher among the black population, than the white. Currently 4.8% of white Americans are out of work, compared with an overall average of 5.8%

37%
male prison inmates are black
Prisoner
Figures based on the prison population at the end of December 2013 show black Americans made up a disproportionate number of inmates. Some 32% were white and 22% Hispanic.
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Data sources: US Census, Public Religion Research Institute, Forbes, US Dept of Labor, US Dept of Justice
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