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FACTS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT AFRICANS & IMMIGRANTS in the USA
Does Immigration Have a Positive or Negative Impact on the U.S.? Immigration reform -- expanding the number of legal immigrants and blocking access to the country by illegals -- is a major political issue.
Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants in the United States:
1 in 5 US Healthcare worker is an immigrant: Africans make up the following demographics of the US healthcare work force: 39.2% work in Nursing home-health professions. 17% are Technologists and Technicians. 9% are in the Diagnostics practice. 20% are Registered Nurses. And 12% are Physicians and Surgeons.
3% of US Immigrants are from Africa (not including an estimated 1-2% undocumented aliens): West African region make up the largest number of Africans in the US. 1 in 3 Africans are Naturalized US citizens. Nigerians & Ethiopians make up the highest number of legal permanent residents. 28% of all refugees in the US are Africans. And over 50% of African immigrants arrived in the US after 1990.
Burundi, Liberia, and Somalia make up the highest number African Refugees in 2008: Refugees do not have a choice of where they will be resettled. Liberians & Sierra Leonians are mostly resettled in New York. Ethiopians & Somalians are mostly resettled in Minnesota. And Sudanese refugees are mostly resettled in Texas. The US State Department endeavors to bring refugees into states where their ethnic communities are already established. See additional data at Homeland Security site.
16% of Nigerians and 15% of Ghanaians belong to Ethnic-Community Associations
How Large is the Nigerian Community in the state of Maryland? (not including an estimated 1-2% undocumented aliens): In 1998, there were 22,000 Nigerians in the Baltimore-Washington area comprising DC, Hagerstown, & Baltimore areas. In 2000, according to the US Census data, Nigerians make up about 3% of Maryland foreign born population which is projected to reach 48,000 in 2007.
How much money do the over 30 million African immigrants worldwide send back to Africa? In 2007 alone, $265 Billion flowed to developing countries worldwide, according to the World Bank. In 2007 slightly under three-quarters of remittances to sub-Saharan Africa were sent from the United States and western Europe, while the rest were sent from Gulf states, other developed countries and developing countries, according to the World Bank. Nigeria receives more in remittances than any other sub-Saharan African country, with $3.3 billion in 2007, followed by Kenya with $1.3 billion, and Senegal with $0.9 billion, according to the World Bank.
International Trade with Sub-Sahara Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa, with a consumer base of 650 million, are your best bet for leveraging international trade in the burgeoning Sub-Sahara Africa market. Source - US Commerce Dept. 2007.
Number of Foreign Born by U.S. States (1990, 2000, 2006)
Percent Change in the Foreign Born by U.S. States (1990, 2000, 2006)
Statistic of Immigrants in U.S. Armed Forces: According to data from the U.S. Department of Defense, more than 65,000 immigrants (non-US citizens and naturalized citizens) were serving on active duty in the US Armed Forces as of February 2008. Foreign-born military personnel from Latin America and the Caribbean constituted 38.7 percent of all the foreign born in the armed forces while 35.9 percent were from Asia, and nearly 5 percent were from Africa.
What is the Role of Immigrant Voters in US Elections? -- >DC< >MD< >VA< >Others<
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics from US Department of Homeland Security
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