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Friday, August 23, 2013

Indians are third largest immigrant group in US

Indians have emerged as the third-largest immigrant group in the US behind Mexicans and the Chinese with their number touching nearly 1.9 million in 2011, according to a US think tank. 

The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source. 

Indian population has grown to over 150 times its size since 1960, Based on data from various US government reports, it is  noted that Almost one-third of all Indian immigrants resided in just two states: 
California (380,700 or 21 percent) and New Jersey (210,400, or 11 percent). 
According to the Institute of International Education, students from India accounted for 13 percent (100,270) of the 764,495 international students studying at US institutions of higher learning during the 2011-12 academic year. 

India was the second largest origin country of international students in the United States, behind China (25 percent of international students in the United States). 

More than 29 percent of employed Indian-born men worked in information technology occupations, while 19 percent of employed Indian-born women worked in management, business, and finance. 

The top three occupations that employed Indian-born men ages 16 and older were information technology (29 percent of all 717,000 Indian male workers); management, business, and finance(21 percent); and sales (11 percent).
Indians are third largest immigrant group in US
The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011.

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