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Table 2. Central American Immigrants by Country of Origin, 1960 to 2009
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Belize |
Costa Rica |
El Salvador |
Guatemala |
Honduras |
Nicaragua |
Panama |
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Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
Number (1,000s) |
Share* |
| 1960 |
2.8 |
5.7 |
5.4 |
11.1 |
6.3 |
12.9 |
5.4 |
11.0 |
6.5 |
13.3 |
9.5 |
19.4 |
13.1 |
26.7 |
| 1970 |
8.9 |
7.8 |
16.7 |
14.7 |
15.7 |
13.8 |
17.4 |
15.2 |
19.1 |
16.8 |
16.1 |
14.2 |
20.0 |
17.6 |
| 1980 |
14.4 |
4.2 |
29.6 |
8.6 |
94.4 |
27.3 |
63.1 |
18.2 |
39.2 |
11.3 |
44.2 |
12.8 |
60.7 |
17.6 |
| 1990 |
30.0 |
2.7 |
22.3 |
2.0 |
465.4 |
42.1 |
225.7 |
20.4 |
108.9 |
9.8 |
168.7 |
15.2 |
85.7 |
7.7 |
| 2000 |
42.1 |
2.1 |
71.9 |
3.6 |
817.3 |
40.5 |
480.7 |
23.8 |
282.9 |
14.0 |
220.3 |
10.9 |
105.2 |
5.2 |
| 2009 |
48.6 |
1.7 |
86.3 |
3.0 |
1,149.9 |
39.4 |
798.7 |
27.4 |
467.9 |
16.1 |
253.3 |
8.7 |
103.8 |
3.6 |
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Notes: *Share of all Central American immigrants in year listed. Shares my not sum to 100 due to rounding and, in 2009, some immigrants listing only "Central America" as their country of birth.
Source: Data for 2000 from the 2000 Decennial Census; data for 2009 from the American Community Survey 2009.
Data for earlier decades from Gibson, Campbell and Emily Lennon, US Census Bureau, Working Paper No. 29, Historical Census Statistics on the
Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 1990, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC., 1999.
Available online.
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