Black-white couplings represented only about one-in-nine of the approximately 280,000 new interracial marriages in 2008

White-Hispanic couples accounted for about four-in-ten (41%) of such new marriages; white-Asian couples made up 15%; and white-black couples made up 11%. Of the 3.8 million adults who married in 2008, 9% of whites, 16% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 31% of Asians married someone whose race or ethnicity was different from their own. Some 22% of all black male newlyweds in 2008 married outside their race, compared with just 9% of black female newlyweds. Some 40% of Asian female newlyweds in 2008 married outside their race, compared with just 20% of Asian male newlyweds.