White Americans
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes majority of the people in the United States: as of 2019: it numbers about 236,475,401, or 72.0% of the population. Non-Latino whites totaled roughly 191,697,647, or 57.8% in the 2020 Census. White Latino Americans totaled about 38,277,289, or 11.8% of the population in 2019. European Americans are the largest panethnic group of white Americans and have constituted the majority population of the United States since the nation's founding. The United States Census Bureau uses a particular definition of "white" that differs from some colloquial uses of the term. The Bureau defines "White" people to be those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa." Within official Census definitions, people of all racial categories may be further divided into those who identify as "not Latino" and those who do identify as "Latino."
