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Black Women Statistics

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Content: All of these factors help explain the higher poverty rate for Black women (29%) than ‘all women’ at 17 percent. RELATIONSHIPS
The percentages of Black women who are married and who have never been married are almost the exact opposite of those percentages for ‘all women’ in America (left chart). Although 48% of Black women have NEVER been married 46% of ‘all women’ are CURRENTLY married. Only 26% of Black women are currently married while only 31% of ‘all women’ in America have NEVER been married. Black women are slightly more likely to be separated from their spouses (4%) compared to all women at 2% but are just as likely to be divorced (13%) compared to 12 percent. CLICK TO ZOOM
Black women are less likely to be married than Black men. As a matter of fact there are about 364,000 more Black men who are married than Black women even though Black women are 51% of the Black population. While an overwhelming percentage of Black women are married to Black men (94%), about 86% of Black men are married to Black women. More about Marriage…
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Black women are the head of 27% of all Black households in 2018 which is more than twice the rate for ‘all women’ at 12 percent. These are households defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as having a female head and no spouse present.