African immigrants make up a small share of the U.S. immigrant population, but their numbers are growing – roughly doubling every decade since 1970, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data.
There were 1.8 million African immigrants living in the U.S. in 2013, up from 881,000 in 2000 and a substantial increase from 1970, when the U.S. was home to only 80,000 foreign-born Africans. They accounted for 4.4% of the immigrant population in 2013, up from 0.8% in 1970.
The growth is evident among recently arrived immigrants. When compared with other major groups who arrived in the U.S. in the past five years, Africans had the fastest growth rate from 2000 to 2013, increasing by 41% during that period. (Africans are also a rapidly growing segment of the black immigrant population in the U.S., increasing by 137% from 2000 to 2013.)
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7 comments:
And they'll all call themselves African Americans.
We had too many of them here to start with. They take from the economy instead of producing for it! With the current president, they feel entitled to act in an uncivil manner!
Just what we need.
We are being INVADED just like Sweden.. It will just take a little longer, but Obama is pushing it as hard as he can...
I see it as more problems, and more crime and more welfare and social services dependents. A drag on society and the taxpayers.
More people on welfare, great, now I can work till I'm 90 to pay for it.
Most of the non-Muslim Africans that I've encountered have been OK. Hard workers, too. The Muslim variety are exactly what you would expect.
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