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Article: Foreign-born population surpasses 32 million, Census Bureau estimates.
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- March 10, 2003
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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 March 2003-US CENSUS BUREAU: Foreign-born population surpasses 32 million, Census Bureau estimates(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The Commerce Department's Census Bureau estimated that the nation's foreign-born population last year numbered 32.5 million, accounting for 11.5 percent of the total U.S. population.
Among the foreign-born population, 52 percent were born in Latin America, 26 percent in Asia, 14 percent in Europe and the remaining 8 percent in other regions of the world, such as Africa and Oceania. (See attached chart.)
According to the report, The Foreign-Born Population in the United ...