foreign-born population
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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The 2005 census showed theforeign-bornpopulationat 1.2%, having risen a mere.06% in 10 years.
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The region'sforeign-bornpopulationsat at 8.6%.
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In addition, theforeign-bornpopulationis also above the state average.
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The county has the second largestforeign-bornpopulationin the region.
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The 2005 census showed theforeign-bornpopulationat 1.2%, having risen a mere.06% in 10 years.
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The combined total immigrant population of these seven states was 70% of the totalforeign-bornpopulationin 2000.
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Theforeign-bornpopulationis 150,235, constituting 30.3% of the city's population.
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Theforeign-bornpopulationincreased 40 percent between the 1990 and 2000 census.
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They show the number of foreign-born individuals in states where theforeign-bornpopulationgrew by a factor of two or more between 1990 and 2000.
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In 2004, theforeign-bornpopulationwas 11,000 (2.2%).
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These estimates represented roughly one-third of the entireforeign-bornpopulation.
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But 51 percent of theforeign-bornpopulationentered the state either in or after the year 2000.
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Within theforeign-bornpopulation, women were at a much greater risk for wage violations than their male counterparts.
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The city'sforeign-bornpopulationstood at 5.9%.
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The region'sforeign-bornpopulationsat at 8.6%.
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Because of the pull of the university, the city has one of the highest foreign-born populations in the state, at 17.4%.
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