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Disability Status: 2000 - Census 2000 Brief

Disability Status 2000: Table 2

Table 2.
Percentage of the Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population With Any Disability by Age and Selected Race and Hispanic or Latino Origin Groups: 2000

(For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf)

Race and Hispanic or Latino Origin

Total population aged 5 and older

Percent with a disability

5 and older

5 to 15

16 to 64

65 and older

          Total

257,167,527

19.3

5.8

18.6

41.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 White alone

195,100,538

18.5

5.6

16.8

40.6

 Black or African American alone

30,297,703

24.3

7

26.4

52.8

 American Indian and Alaska Native alone

2,187,507

24.3

7.7

27

57.6

 Asian alone

9,455,058

16.6

2.9

16.9

40.8

 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific

 

 

 

 

 

        Islander alone

337,996

19

5.1

21

48.5

 Some other race alone

13,581,921

19.9

5.2

23.5

50.4

 Two or more races

6,206,804

21.7

7.1

25.1

51.8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hispanic or Latino (of any race)

31,041,269

20.9

5.4

24

48.5

   

 

 

 

 

 

 White alone, not Hispanic or Latino

180,151,084

18.3

5.7

16.2

40.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division
Last Revised: September 21, 2009