Editing Demographics of Puerto Rico (section)

====Censuses====
The first [[1899 Puerto Rico Census|census]] by the United States in 1899 reported a population of 953,243 inhabitants, 61.8% of them classified as white, 31.9% as mixed, and 6.3% as black.<ref name="PR 1905">{{cite book | author=Office of the Secretary | title=Register of Porto Rico | publisher=Office of the Secretary | year=1905 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vekCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8 | access-date=September 17, 2022 | page=8}}</ref>

According to the 1920 Puerto Rico census, 2,505 individuals immigrated to Puerto Rico between 1910 and 1920. Of these, 2,270 were classified as "white" in the 1920 census (1,205 from Spain, 280 from Venezuela, 180 from Cuba, and 135 from the Dominican Republic).
During the same 10-year period, 7,873 Puerto Ricans emigrated to the U.S. Of these, 6,561 were listed as "white" on the U.S mainland census, 909 as "Spanish white" and 403 as "black".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/loveman-muniz.pdf|title=How Puerto Rico became white|website=Ssc.wisc.edu|access-date=October 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207224431/http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/loveman-muniz.pdf|archive-date=February 7, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Until 1950, the U.S. Bureau of the Census attempted to quantify the racial composition of the island's population, while experimenting with various racial taxonomies. In 1960 the census dropped the racial identification question for Puerto Rico but included it again in the year 2000. The only category that remained constant over time was white, even as other racial labels shifted greatly—from "colored" to "Black", "mulatto" and "other".
Regardless of the precise terminology, the census reported that the majority of the Puerto Rican population was white from 1899 to 2000.<ref name="mona.uwi.edu"/>

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According to the 2015 Race and Hispanic Origin estimate (2011–2015 American Community Survey) published by the [[US Census]] Bureau, the data for Puerto Rico was as follows:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |title=Race and Hispanic Origin, Puerto Rico |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2016 |website=US Census |publisher=US Department of Commerce |access-date=February 18, 2017 }}</ref>
* White alone 2,495,997
* Black or African American alone 301,519
* American Indian and Alaska Native alone 11,775
* Asian alone 10,159
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 129
* Some Other Race alone 431,443
* Two or More Races 332,051
* Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 3,547,288
* White alone, Not Hispanic or Latino 24,900
In 2020, the Census Bureau reported the following data:

* White alone 560,592 
* Black or African American alone 228,711
* American Indian and Alaska Native alone 17,870
* Asian alone 4,001
* Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 593
* Some Other Race alone 838,316
* Two or More Races 1,635,791
* Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 3,249,043
* White alone, Not Hispanic or Latino 24,548

In the 2020 census, the percentage of the population identifying as white dropped to 17.1%, down from 75.8% in the 2010 census. A similar drop in identification as white was seen among Hispanics in the 50 states and [[Washington, D.C.]], where the percentage of [[White Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics identifying as white]] dropped from 53.0% to 20.3%. The change has been attributed to the wording of the Spanish-language version of the census questionnaire.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}