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Article: Foreign-born population tops 34 million, Census Bureau estimates.
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- February 22, 2005
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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 February 2005-US CENSUS BUREAU: Foreign-born population tops 34 million, Census Bureau estimates(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The nation's foreign-born population numbered 34.2 million in 2004, accounting for 12 percent of the total U.S. population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today. The number of foreign-born is 2.3 percent higher than it was in 2003.
Within the foreign-born population, 53 percent were born in Latin America, 25 percent in Asia, 14 percent in Europe and the remaining 8 percent in other regions of the world, such as Africa and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and all of the ...