Some stats on interracial marriage in the US

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- A record 15.1% of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another.
- Among all newlyweds, 9.4% of whites, 17.1% of blacks, 25.7% of Hispanics and 27.7% of Asians married someone whose race or ethnicity was different from their own.
- Rates of intermarriages among newlyweds in the U.S. have nearly tripled since 1980 (6.7%) increasing to 14.6% in 2008 and 15.1% in 2010.
- Among all newlyweds, intermarried pairings were primarily White-Hispanic (43.3%) as compared to White-Asian (14.4%), White-Black (11.9%), and Other Combinations (30.4%). Other combinations consists of pairings between different minority groups, multi-racial people, and American Indians.

Source: LINK

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These stats come the following study LINK
They are based on the number of divorced by the 10th year of marriage compared to White/White couples.

They simply found the numbers, but did not try to examine the cause of the divorce rates among the different pairings. That would require much more research into the numerous factors that are involved in marriages.

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