Each year in December, Military OneSource — a DOD website — releases an annual report that outlines the demographics of each service branch of the military by race, ethnicity, gender, and age, among other factors. This visualization presents 2024 data on the race and ethnicity of active-duty members. The visualization can be manipulated by using the filter drop-down options to select desired criteria. The 2023 report includes information related to gender, race and ethnicity, age, paygrade and education for active duty, Reserve and National Guard personnel in all of the military services. This analysis describes the mid-year population for U.S. Armed Forces active component service members, stratified by age, sex, and race and ethnicity. Military composition refers to the breakdown of the military population based on various demographic factors. This composition can include factors like race, ethnicity, gender, age, rank, or any other demographic element. This Demographics Report, which was prepared for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), presents a synthesis of demographic information describing members and families in the military community in. Active Component is 465,239. Males account for 84.4% and Females a. count for 15.6% of the total. The Racial/Ethnic distribution of the Army is as follows – White, Not Hispanic: 54%, Black, Not. In the fiscal year of 2019, 21.39 percent of active-duty enlisted women were of Hispanic origin. The total number of active duty military personnel in 2019 amounted to 1.3 million people. The. The way the military tracks data on race has differed over time, but we found very little change in the racial makeup of the last two decades. About 67% of troops. How racially and ethnically diverse is the military? Federal agencies categorize race into five groups—white, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.