Facebook Racial Demographics in US
by Kasthuri VN on December 17th, 2009
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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%
Blacks : 11%
Latino : 9%
Asian : 6%
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