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I'd like to see this as a percentage of the world population since the increase over time makes it hard to see exactly what's happening.
There is a chart showing the major immigration flows as a percentage of U.S. population.
Does "United Kingdom" in the early 20th century mean just the British Isles? Or is India, Australia, Middle East also included under "UK"?
In the last 10 years, immigration has really picked up from all over the world, whereas earlier it was just a few countries.
Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
As a collateral effect, even Vancouver's population skyrocketed growing from around 13,700 in 1891 to over 100,000 in 1911.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vancouver#Popu...
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I've long heard that German is the most common ancestry for Americans, but I've always wondered how that was determined. I think they may be counting total immigrants, but not allowing for when the immigrants arrived. I can readily believe that more immigrants arrived from Germany than from the British Isles, but it's also possible that by the time those German immigrants showed up they were outnumbered by the descen…
They just ask people where their ancestors came from, like on the census. Brits may be undercounted because they've been here so long they don't even know they were British, but also the European population was quite small when they first started to settle here.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...:
Fifteen largest ancestries in the United States as self reported
in the 2000 Census:[58]
Rank Ancestry Number Percent of total
population
— U.K. (1801–1922) 66,224,627[59] 23.3%[59]
1 German 42,841,569 15.2%
2 Irish 30,524,799 10.8%
3 African 24,903,412 8.8%
4 English 24,509,692 8.7%
5 American 20,188,305 7.2%
6 Mexican 18,382,291 6.5%
7 Italian 15,638,348 5.6%
8 Polish 8,977,235 3.2%
9 French 8,309,666 3.0%
10 American Indian
and
Alaskan Native 7,876,568 2.8%
11 Scottish 4,890,581 1.7%
12 Dutch 4,541,770 1.6%
13 Norwegian 4,477,725 1.6%
14 Scotch-Irish 4,319,232 1.5%
15 Chinese 4,010,114 1.4%Didn't know so much Germans came to the US back in the days.
They are taken into account in the same site's visualisation of New Yorkers: http://metrocosm.com/where-new-yorkers-come-from/