Table 5-2D.  Region of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population for Selected Metropolitan Areas:  1997
                                                                                                                                                    (Last revised, 5/5/99:A:table5-2D)
(Numbers in thousands.  Metropolitan areas as defined June 30, 1993, with 1 million or more foreign-born population in 1990.  Data are for civilian noninstitutional population plus 
Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post)
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                                                    |            |        |        |        |         |                       Latin America                      |          |
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                                                    |            |        |        |        |         |        |           |      Central America      |         |          |
                                                    |      Total |        |        |        |         |        |           |---------------------------|         |          |
                                                    |   foreign- |        |        |        |         |        |           |        |        |   Other |         |          |
                                                    |       born |        |        |        |         |        |           |        |        | Central |   South | Northern |      Not
Metropolitan area                                   | population | Europe |   Asia | Africa | Oceania |  Total | Caribbean |  Total | Mexico | America | America |  America | reported
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NUMBER
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA................        1,062      303      219       30         -      480          18      431      413        18        32         13         18
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA.......        4,778      327    1,360       51        20    2,931          63    2,742    2,104       639       126         61         29
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA.....................        1,440       88       78        9         1    1,255         825      235       17       217       195          9          -
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-
    CT-PA CMSA.....................................        4,582    1,059      905      165        10    2,352       1,231      485      214       271       636         42         48
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA............        1,356      240      737       21        18      311          21      257      186        71        32         18         12

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA................        100.0     28.5     20.6      2.8         -     45.2         1.7     40.6     38.9       1.7       3.0        1.2        1.7
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA.......        100.0      6.8     28.5      1.1       0.4     61.3         1.3     57.4     44.0      13.4       2.6        1.3        0.6
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA.....................        100.0      6.1      5.4      0.7       0.1     87.1        57.3     16.3      1.2      15.1      13.5        0.6          -
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-
    CT-PA CMSA.....................................        100.0     23.1     19.7      3.6       0.2     51.3        26.9     10.6      4.7       5.9      13.9        0.9        1.1
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA............        100.0     17.7     54.3      1.5       1.4     22.9         1.6     19.0     13.7       5.2       2.4        1.3        0.9
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- Represents zero or rounds to zero.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, March 1997 Current Population Survey.
Internet Release date:  October 15, 1999