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Political division of Mexico
The following table presents a listing of Mexico's 31 federal states (and its Federal District, officially not a state), ranked in order of their total population (per year 2000 census data from INEGI (http://www.inegi.gob.mx)).
Because all children born in the United States to immigrants are by definition natives, the sole reason for the dramatic increase in the immigrant population is new immigration.
Instead of using the growth in the foreign-born population, the last three rows of Table 2 use the number of immigrants who arrived in the 1990s as the basis for estimating the impact of immigration on population growth.
Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C. In contrast to the decennial census and the March 2000 population projection, which are the basis for the population growth figure found in Table 2, the CPS is designed to measure only the civilian non-institutionalized population.
Moreover, the effect of immigration on population growth is even higher — 42 percent — if the number of immigrants who responded in the CPS that they had arrived in the 1990s is used to measure the impact of immigration on the growth of the total U.S. population.
While the number of immigrants and the growth rate of the immigrant population are both higher now than at any other time in the 20th century, the immigrant percentage of the population was larger in the first few decades of this century.
While the states that had large immigrant populations in 1990 continue to account for most of the growth in the immigrant population, Table 4 shows substantial growth in the immigrant populations of Arizona, Oregon, Maryland, and North Carolina.
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