In 2012, the foreign population made up 14% of the city's 5.3 million people.
Some have suggested it should turn its large foreign population (over 12% of the total) into an asset.
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Indeed the foreign population needs to expand to 23% in the next 20 years if Switzerland's workforce is to remain stable.
For instance, although 20m foreigners arrive in Britain each year, Professor Salt's best guess is that Britain's foreign population rose by a mere 134, 000 between 1999 and 2000.
There are 2, 065 Chinese international students enrolled this year at Boston University, nearly a third of the total foreign student population, university spokesman Colin Riley said.
The legal foreign-born population now numbers 25.8m, about a tenth of the total population.
Those immigrants account for a large majority of the area's foreign-born population, now 51.4% of the county.
Those who came helped to swell Japan's foreign-born population, which has doubled in the past 20 years.
In Phoenix, more than 70% of the foreign-born population is from Latin America.
Unemployment last year was only 4%, but among the non-European foreign-born population as many as 13.2% were without formal work.
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America has the largest foreign-born population by far an astonishing 43 million people, 10 million more than the entire population of Canada.
It shows how the foreign-born population is on the rise, not just in big cities, but in smaller towns across the country.
China, by contrast, has a foreign-born population of less than one million.
The decade saw America's foreign-born population grow by 24%, or about 7.4m.
In nine states, the foreign-born population has more than tripled since 1990.
There are 2, 065 Chinese international students enrolled this year at Boston University, nearly a third of the total foreign-student population, university spokesman Colin Riley said.
One reason these figures are remarkable is that, according to the report, the foreign-born population of the United States has averaged 10.5 percent since 1850.
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This jibes nicely with domestic migration trends and growth in the foreign-born population, both of which have been strongest in many of these same cities.
It has been one of the fastest-growing cities in America in terms of gross domestic product (67% increase from 2001 to 2006) and foreign-born population (65% increase from 2001 to 2007).
Indeed an analysis of foreign-born population by demographer Wendell Cox reveals that the fastest growth in the numbers of newcomers are actually in cities (metropolitan areas) not usually seen as immigrant hubs.
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The overall foreign-born population rose by roughly 300, 000.
More than 140 languages are spoken there, and more than a third of the population is foreign-born.
In the early 1900s about 15 percent of the population was foreign born.
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According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the state has seen its population of foreign-born residents more than double since the year 2000, and half of those newcomers are believed to be Latino.
The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance).
While only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born, 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.
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The local population excluding expatriates and other foreign nationals form about two-thirds of its 5 odd million population, with Chinese-Singaporeans making up about 75% of these, followed by Malay-Singaporeans with 15%, Indian-Singaporeans about 9% and rest comprising various ethnic backgrounds.
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In all, 12% of the population is now foreign-born, up from 3% in 1998.
Roughly 13 percent of the population today is foreign-born.
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He lectured about the need to unite against the threat of a rich Muslim minority bent on marrying and converting Buddhist women, buying up land with foreign funding and flooding the population with Muslim babies.
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