In 2015, about one-in-seven, or 14 percent of, children in the U.S. under the age of one were multiracial or multiethnic, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. The rate is three times greater than it was in 1980.
The analysis, which was published Tuesday, includes data on multiracial or multiethnic babies, including children less than one year old whose parents are each of a different race, those with one Hispanic and one non-Hispanic parent and those with at least one parent who identifies as multiracial.
The majority of multiethnic or multiracial babies, 42 percent, have one parent who is non-Hispanic and one who is non-Hispanic white.The second largest group, 22 percent, has at least one parent who is multiracial, followed by 14 percent of babies who have one Asian parent and one non-Hispanic white parent. And, 10 percent of babies have one Black parent and one non-Hispanic white parent.
