PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS

The People of the Nations are on the move.  In 2005 a total of 190,633,564 people left their homeland and emigrated to a new country.  Ten countries received 52% (99,512) with the United States receiving the most--38,355.  Every state in the United States is increasingly becoming multi-cultural. Minnesota is just one example.

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Minnesota

A Top Ten Gateway City

600,000+ People of the Nations.

8,600 International Students.

150+ different cultural groups (people groups).

Largest concentration of

  1. Hmong

  2. Somali

  3. Oromo

Second in concentration of

  1. Tibetans

  2. Liberians

Ninth fastest growing Asian city.

Eight fastest growing Hispanic city

First in sub-Saharan immigration

By 2050: 40% Caucasian, 30% Hispanic

90+% non Christian

24+ groups, 95% non Christian

29+ groups have no church

Eighty-six mosques

Fifty-five Buddhist temples

 Twenty-two Hindu temples

 

 

The immigrant population of the United States increased by 6.4 million between 2000 and 2006.  

The foreign-born population of Minnesota changed by 30.2 percent between 2000 and 2006. The foreign-born population in Minnesota changed from 260,463 to 339,236.

In 2006, the foreign born represented 6.6 percent of Minnesota's total population.  Of the total foreign-born population in Minnesota in 2006:   

  1. 36.3 percent from Asia.
  2. 27.9 percent from Latin America (South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean).
  3. 18.8 percent were from Africa.
  4. 13.1 percent from Europe.
  5. 3.7 percent from Northern America (Canada, Bermuda, Greenland, and St. Pierre and Miquelon).
  6. 0.3 percent from Oceania.

Of the total foreign-born population in Minnesota in 2006:

  1. 17.2 percent were born in Mexico.
  2. 5.1 percent in India.
  3. 4.7 percent in Vietnam.

In Minnesota, of the foreign born population:

  1. 34.1 percent of the foreign-born population were Asian.
  2. 18.2 percent were black or African American.
  3. 33.7 percent were white. 

Source: United Nations, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision, http://esa.un.org/migration/index.asp?panel=1