Census Brief: Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Foreign-Born Population From Latin America (2000 Update)
Census Brief: Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Foreign-Born Population From Latin America (2000 Update)
Report Number: CENBR/01-2
One-half of foreign-born population is from Latin America.
In 2000, 14.5 million, or about half, of the nation’s 28.4 million foreign-born residents were born in Latin America.
The size of the foreign-born population from Latin America has grown rapidly. In 1960, about 900,000 (or 9 percent of the total foreign-born population) came from Latin America. By 1990, this population numbered 8.4 million, or 44 percent of the total.
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