About 20 percent of Canadians are foreign born (compared with 12.5 percent in the United States), and they are quicker to acquire citizenship and voting rights.
The variation at <24 weeks was wide with a 90% centile range of 26.3% to 79.5%, that is, in the lower 5% of PCTs, around a quarter of births were registered as live born compared with over three quarters in the upper 5% of PCTs.
Among the nation's 37.3 million blacks, more than 8 percent are now foreign born, compared with 1 percent in 1960.
In China there are 118 boys for every 100 girls born, compared with a natural ratio of 105 to 100.
In sub-Saharan Africa, this amounts to 51% of all children born, compared with 41% in South East Asia.
Hispanics now comprise a larger fraction of the population and are more likely to be foreign-born compared with the 1980s (U.S. Census Bureau 1993; Pew 2012).
Some officials estimate that four million foreigners have lived in Mexico over the past few years, but the 2010 census counted about one million, making around 1percentt of the country foreign-born compared with 13percentt in the United States.
Veterans are also overwhelming male (92%), and born in the U.S. Just 3% of veterans are foreign-born, compared with 17% of the non-veteran civilian population.
But Sweden has taken in large numbers of immigrants (roughly 14 percent of the population is foreign-born, compared with 11 percent in Britain and 13 percent in the United States).
Three months ago Alabama, 3% of whose population is foreign-born (compared with 12.5% nationwide), passed the nation's harshest anti-illegal-immigrant law.
