Table 5. Population for Selected Ancestry Groups Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Internet Release date: February 18, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |Percent|Percent| | | |Percent|entered|natur- | | |All |foreign|1980 to|alized |Median |Sex Ancestry |persons |born |1990 |citizen|age |ratio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All persons 248,709,873 7.9 43.8 40.5 33.0 95.0 Albanian 38,361 32.8 27.2 53.8 33.1 111.9 American 13,039,560 0.1 25.2 65.2 30.9 91.6 Armenian 267,975 44.5 50.6 40.5 35.9 99.9 Assyrian 46,099 58.6 37.9 51.4 31.5 103.7 Australian 36,290 39.4 48.2 24.8 32.0 94.1 Austrian 545,856 11.2 8.3 78.9 46.5 94.0 Barbadian 33,178 74.6 36.5 44.9 37.4 81.7 Basque 37,842 14.2 19.4 54.1 34.4 117.6 Belgian 248,075 11.0 24.1 58.9 37.4 98.0 Belizean 21,205 75.3 42.3 30.2 29.0 80.0 Brazilian 57,108 72.5 71.7 18.2 27.7 93.2 British West Indian 35,822 79.5 49.2 34.2 33.4 80.1 Bulgarian 20,894 32.3 33.3 68.7 39.2 116.4 Cajun 597,729 0.1 24.3 60.4 29.7 103.4 Canadian 361,612 34.1 24.5 44.5 39.5 89.4 Cape Verdean 46,552 28.9 49.1 37.3 29.2 91.1 Croatian 409,458 7.5 13.3 74.9 38.1 98.7 Czech 772,087 3.7 21.0 78.7 36.9 97.4 Czechoslovakian 240,489 7.7 14.4 83.0 42.2 92.6 Danish 980,868 3.8 21.8 54.9 38.5 95.7 Dutch 3,475,410 3.6 17.3 58.4 37.3 93.6 Dutch West Indian 33,473 4.0 38.6 37.4 34.1 93.8 Egyptian 73,097 69.2 49.9 56.5 31.7 138.3 English 22,703,652 2.8 23.9 47.9 40.4 91.9 Estonian 20,996 47.5 5.8 81.6 44.8 93.6 Ethiopian 33,868 81.4 80.2 17.1 28.5 130.6 Finnish 465,070 4.8 24.4 53.0 35.8 92.1 French 6,204,184 2.7 26.7 52.3 34.7 85.1 French Canadian 1,698,394 6.7 12.5 56.3 35.0 100.2 German 45,583,932 1.8 11.6 70.3 33.1 99.2 Greek 921,782 21.0 12.9 70.9 33.6 105.4 Guyanese 75,765 85.3 60.8 38.4 30.6 87.4 Haitian 280,874 70.9 57.9 26.2 29.5 100.2 Hungarian 997,545 12.4 14.1 79.1 39.6 94.8 Icelander 27,171 20.2 38.3 37.0 33.4 88.9 Iranian 220,714 77.0 48.4 27.1 30.8 137.3 Iraqi 20,657 69.5 44.1 52.5 30.3 134.7 Irish 22,721,252 1.2 18.2 63.8 34.9 89.3 Israeli 69,018 56.6 56.3 44.8 27.8 123.5 Italian 11,286,815 5.7 8.8 72.6 33.8 97.7 Jamaican 410,933 72.8 45.8 37.9 31.4 85.4 Latvian 75,747 36.4 3.7 84.0 46.3 97.9 Lebanese 309,578 25.5 49.0 50.9 32.3 109.5 Lithuanian 526,089 6.6 6.2 82.6 42.8 96.5 Luxemburger 28,846 4.6 15.4 67.1 44.4 105.1 Maltese 30,292 30.4 11.8 67.7 32.7 104.3 Nigerian 86,875 55.5 68.9 17.1 28.8 155.9 Norwegian 2,517,760 1.9 15.9 65.3 36.2 95.1 Palestinian 44,651 56.9 45.2 57.6 27.1 142.3 Pennsylvania German 246,461 0.2 34.1 35.5 42.8 75.1 Polish 6,542,844 6.2 29.5 61.7 36.1 94.5 Portuguese 900,060 25.8 24.3 42.9 33.4 98.6 Romanian 235,774 29.1 53.1 54.5 41.7 98.5 Russian 2,114,506 9.2 34.2 63.4 41.6 94.3 Scotch-Irish 4,334,197 0.7 9.7 64.6 43.5 88.3 Scottish 3,315,306 4.6 14.4 58.9 39.5 111.9 Serbian 89,583 21.5 16.1 67.8 39.8 105.3 Slavic 43,301 6.2 19.2 77.2 35.8 92.7 Slovak 1,210,652 3.3 13.7 80.9 39.9 95.1 Slovene 87,500 7.8 6.5 85.9 46.7 89.1 Swedish 2,881,950 2.0 22.4 57.6 37.0 91.4 Swiss 607,833 5.9 24.5 57.6 39.6 99.6 Syrian 95,155 23.4 51.1 49.7 33.7 106.3 Trinidadian and Tobagonian 71,720 80.8 39.9 28.0 32.1 80.4 Turkish 66,492 53.5 47.0 42.0 32.8 124.3 Ukrainian 514,085 17.9 15.7 68.8 40.9 100.4 Welsh 1,038,603 1.7 21.5 53.0 39.6 122.6 Yugoslavian 184,952 25.3 22.6 58.7 35.3 101.0 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------