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SIDEBAR: From Diversity to Dominance
From Diversity to Dominance
Foreign-Born Population Living in the United States
1960
In 1960, the foreign-born population in the United States (from the five principal countries of origin) was relatively diverse:
Poland: 748,000
U.K.: 833,000
Canada: 953,000
Germany: 990,000
Italy: 1,257,000
2000
In 2000, the foreign-born population from the top five countries was distributed very differently:
Cuba: 952,000
India: 1,007,000
Phillipines: 1,222,000
China: 1,391,000
Mexico: 7,841,000
Source: Campbell J. Gibson and Emily Lennon's "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States 1850-1990" (Population Division Working Paper No. 29, U.S. Census Bureau, February 1999); and "Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000" (Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, Series p23-206, 2001).
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