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North America > United States > Immigration

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Asylum Seekers 86.4 [3rd of 28]
Asylum Seekers > 1980-89 395.8 [2nd of 16]
Asylum Seekers > 1990-99 897.6 [2nd of 18]
Asylum seekers acceptance rates > 1980-89 26.8% [12th of 16]
Asylum seekers acceptance rates > 1990-99 43.9% [5th of 18]
Foreign population 10.4 [6th of 27]
immigrant population > Immigrants as percentage of state population 12.81 [40th of 195]
immigrant population > Number of immigrants 38,355,000 [1st of 195]
immigrant population > Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world 20.56
International migration stock > % of population 12.94 % Time series [48th of 205]
International migration stock, total 38,354,710 Time series [1st of 205]
Net migration 5,800,000 Time series [1st of 180]
Net migration rate 2.92 migrant(s)/1,000 populati Time series [30th of 225]
New citizenships 898 thousand [1st of 20]
Refugee population by country or territory of asylum 379,340 Time series [5th of 151]
Refugees > Inflow 1990-99 1,089 [1st of 18]
Refugees and internally displaced persons > Refugees (country of origin)
the US admitted 62,643 refugees during FY04/05 including; 10,586 (Somalia); 8,549 (Laos); 6,666 (Russia); 6,479 (Cuba); 3,100 (Haiti); 2,136 (Iran)
to Sweden 15,300 [16th of 24]

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SOURCES: OECD; OECD; OECD; Wikipedia: List of countries by immigrant population ; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Demographics of Sweden

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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