Editing Demographics of Bermuda (section)

==Ethnic groups==
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|title=Ethnic groups of Bermuda (2016) <ref name="2016 census"/>
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|left1=Ethnic groups
|right1=percent
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|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Black Bermudian|Black]]|Blue|52.3}}
{{bar percent|[[White people|White]] |Orange|30.5}}
{{bar percent|Mixed|Yellow|9.1}}
{{bar percent|Asian|Pink|4.1}}
{{bar percent|Other  |Green|4.0}}
{{bar percent|Unspecified |Purple| 0.1}}
}}

=== Historical ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Population
![[White American|White]]
! %
W
![[African American|Black]]
! %
B
|-
|1698<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Wells |first=Robert V. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x154h |title=Population of the British Colonies in America Before 1776: A Survey of Census Data |date=1975 |publisher=Princeton University Press|jstor=j.ctt13x154h }}</ref>
|5,862
|N/A
|61.7
|N/A
|38.3
|-
|1723<ref name=":0" />
|8,425
|N/A
|56.6
|N/A
|43.4
|-
|1731<ref name=":0" />
|7,601
|N/A
|57.3
|N/A
|42.7
|-
|1749<ref name=":0" />
|9,270
|N/A
|57.1
|N/A
|42.9
|-
|1756<ref name=":0" />
|11,271
|N/A
|56.5
|N/A
|43.5
|-
|1764<ref name=":0" />
|11,009
|N/A
|52.8
|N/A
|47.2
|-
|1771<ref name=":0" />
|11,155
|N/A
|55.0
|N/A
|45.1
|}

=== Current ===
As noted above, only in recent years have Bermudians been given the option to define themselves by more than one race on census returns (and birth registrations<ref>[http://www.royalgazette.com/article/19951220/ISLAND/312209990 ''Dill: It's `important' to talk about inter-racial marriages'', by Patricia Calnan. The Royal Gazette, Hamilton, Bermuda. Published 20 December, 1995 (Updated 9 February, 2011)]</ref>), with the 2000 Census giving respondents the options of ''black'', ''white'', ''Asian'', ''black and white'', ''black and other'', ''white and other'', ''other'', and ''not stated''.<ref name="royalgazette.com"/> For a variety of reasons, most Bermudians have continued to identify themselves by a single racial group.

===One race===
The 2016 Census results reported roughly 91% of the population self-identifying as only one racial group which was slightly lower than the 2010 Census.<ref name="2016 census"/> The largest group reported Black alone, which decreased slightly from 54% in 2010 to 52% in 2016. The White population remained constant at about 31% of the total population in 2016. The remaining 8% of the 2016 population who reported one race consisted of persons reporting Asian only (4%), and those reporting an other race from the ones listed (4%). The proportions of these respective racial groups were similar to what they were in 2010.

===More than one race===
[[File:Oliver Constantine Lambert and Osmond Charles Fanshaw Talbot.jpg|thumb|Oliver Constantine Lambert and Osmond Charles Fanshaw Talbot, forebears of the [[The Talbot Brothers of Bermuda|Talbot Brothers]]. All the six members of the band (in its final line-up) were grandsons of Lambert, via two of his daughters. Five were the sons of Talbot.]]
Nine percent of the population reported belonging to more than one race in 2016, up from 8% in 2010.<ref name="2016 census"/> The black and white category was the most common, representing 39% of the number reporting multi-racial groups and 4% of the total population of Bermuda. The proportion of 'black and other' increased from 2% to 3% of the total population, making up 35% of the people identifying as mixed race. The remainder were of 'white and other' mixed descent, and remained unchanged at 2% of the total population. The changing racial composition of Bermuda's population is consequence of immigration and an increase of interracial marriage.