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Article: Statistical Portrait of Hispanic Women in U.S.: Pew Hispanic Center
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Article date:
- July 14, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Annual births to Hispanic women in the United States exceeded one million for the first time in 2006, and one in four children in the U.S. under the age of 5 is Hispanic, according to new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics now make up 15 percent of the U.S. population, and nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of their population growth in 2006-07 came from births rather than immigration - a reversal of the growth pattern in the 1990s, when immigration was the primary driver of Latino population increases in this country.
In order to illuminate these trends, the Pew Hispanic Center has released Hispanic Women in the United States, 2007, a statistical portrait of the ...