IMMIGRANT-INDIANS 2

New Hampshire (from 2,530 to 6,244), Vermont (from 585
to 1,429), Mississippi (from 2,351 to 5,010), and the District
of Columbia (from 1,139 to 2,350) where increase in population
was observed.
Over one in six Indian immigrants resided in the New
York metropolitan area.
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA,
was the metropolitan area with the largest number of Indian
born (277,401, or 17.1 per cent) in 2008, followed by
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI (116,395, or 7.2 per
cent); San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (78,001, or 4.8 per
cent); Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (67,340,
or 4.2 per cent); and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA
(66,125 or 4.1 per cent).
Of the 2.3 million members of the Indian Diaspora
residing in the US in 2008, 66.4 per cent were born in India,
including individuals born in India to at least one parent who
was a native-born US citizen.
One-fifth (20.0 per cent) were US citizens at birth.
The remaining 13.6 per cent were born elsewhere, mainly in
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, the Caribbean (Guyana, Trinidad
and Tobago, Jamaica), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,
South Africa), and the British Commonwealth (Canada, United
Kingdom).
The Indian Diaspora in the United States is
relatively small compared to the total population of India (1.
1 billion in 2008 according to the World Bank).
The number of Indian immigrants in the US (1.6
million) is roughly the same size as the population of the
Indian city of Agra, and the Indian Diaspora (2.3 million) is
about the same size as the population of Jaipur.
As of 2008, 43.4 per cent of the 1.6 million Indian
foreign born entered the country in 2000 or later, with 29.9
per cent entering between 1990 and 1999, 15.0 per cent between
1980 and 1989, 9.0 per cent between 1970 and 1979, and the
remaining 2.7 per cent prior to 1970.
By contrast, 29.5 per cent of the 38.0 million total
foreign born entered the country in 2000 or later, with 28.7
per cent entering between 1990 and 1999, 20.0 per cent
entering between 1980 and 1989, 11.4 per cent between 1970 and
1979, and the remaining 10.4 per cent prior to 1970.
According to the report, over half of Indian
immigrants residing in the United States in 2008 were men (54.
8 per cent) and 45.2 per cent were women.
Among all immigrants, 50.2 per cent were men and 49.
8 per cent were women. Further, Indian immigrants were as
likely as the foreign born overall to be naturalised US
citizens. (MORE) PTI