The US Census Bureau estimated that there were 43,857,361 people in the United States that identified as Black or African American alone in 2018, representing 13.42% of the total population of the United States in 2018. Mississippi was the state with the highest percentage of Black or African American population (37.8%), followed by Louisiana (32.8%), and then Georgia (32.4%).

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