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Census Brief: Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Latin American Foreign Born

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Census Brief: Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Latin American Foreign Born

Report Number: CENBR/00-3

One-half of foreign-born population is from Latin America.

Census Brief: Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Latin American Foreign Born
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In 1997, 13.1 million, or about half, of the nation’s 25.8 million foreign-born residents were born in Latin America.

The size of the foreign-born population from Latin America has grown rapidly. In 1960, 900,000 (or 9 percent of the total foreign-born population) came from Latin America. By 1990, the population numbered 8.4 million (or 44 percent).

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