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What sport has the most diversity?

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Asked by: Shawn Dark

In an ethnic breakdown of sports, NBA takes lead for most diverse

  • Major League Baseball.
  • National Basketball Association.
  • National Football League.
  • National Hockey League.

What is the most diverse professional sport?

Major League Soccer remains the most diverse professional league on the North American sports landscape, as new data compiled by MLS shows a player pool with a record 73 countries of birth represented and an average age that continues to drop.

Which sport has the most blacks?

While blacks predominate in football and basketball, whites predominate in all other regulated sports.

What is the least diverse sport?

Hockey has historically been one of the least diverse sports, according to the NCAA. Over the past five years, 75.6 percent of NCAA players have identified as white, while 1 percent have identified as black. A 2019 National Hockey League survey found that 93 percent of league players are white.

What sport has the highest percentage of black players?

There were 6.3 percent of the players classified as “other” races. The league has the highest percentage of black players of any major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

What percent of NFL is Black?

As of 2020, 57.5% of NFL players were Black, 0.4% Hispanic or Latinx, 0.1% Asian, 1.6% Pacific Islander, and 0.2% American Indian.

Which sport has the largest white fan base?

The NHL audience is the richest of all professional sports. One-third of its viewers make more than $100k, compared to about 19 percent of the general population. Nascar’s audience has the highest share of women (37 percent) and highest share of white people (94 percent).

What percent of MLB is white?

The most common ethnicity among Professional Baseball Players is White, which makes up 78.0% of all Professional Baseball Players. Comparatively, there are 7.2% of the Hispanic or Latino ethnicity and 6.8% of the Black or African American ethnicity.