The number of US residents identifying as American Indian and/or Alaska Native increased by over 4 million between 2019 and 2020, largely because of the US Census Bureau's changing methods for categorizing multiracial people.

Number of people in the US identifying as American Indian and/or Alaska Native (alone or in combination with other racial/ethnic identities), by Latinx status and year, 2019-2022.

This visualization uses ACS 1-year estimates, to show the year-over-year change in population counts. The rest of this analysis uses ACS 5-year estimates from 2012-2016 and 2018-2022.
Source: National Equity Atlas analysis of American Community Survey microdata from IPUMS USA.Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper