WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
HISPANIC ORIGINS
Profile America — Sunday, October 11th. National Hispanic Heritage Month ends on Thursday this week. The annual commemoration, beginning every September 15, can often treat Hispanics as a single, undifferentiated population. But the roughly 55-million Hispanic residents in America hail from a great variety of nations and cultures in the Caribbean, or south of the Rio Grande River. It's well known the greatest number come from Mexico — over 33 million. But nearly 5 million are of Puerto Rican origin, and another 1.9 million trace their roots to Cuba. About the same number are from El Salvador. Colombia and Guatemala are claimed by over 1 million residents each. The Hispanic nation with the fewest U.S. immigrants is Paraguay, with just over 22,500. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Population:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2013_PEPASR6H&prodType=table
Countries of origin:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_5YR_B03001&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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