African immigrant fact of the day
That’s African immigrants to the United States, here is the fact:
In 2009, 41.7 percent of African-born adults age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 28.1 percent of native-born adults and 26.8 percent of all foreign-born adults.
The source is here, further information about African immigrants is here. They speak good English at very high rates — close to three-quarters — and they are more likely than other immigrants to be participating in the labor force. And their importance is rising:
Though African immigrants represented only 0.4 percent of all foreign born in 1960, this share grew to 1.4 percent in 1980, to 1.8 percent in 1990, and to 2.8 percent in 2000…
People born in the U.S. were roughly four times as likely to report engaging in violent behavior than immigrants from Asia and Africa…
The future of immigration to America is likely African, some south Asian, and Chinese, with Latinos continuing to have a presence as well.