The Numbers Game

Altogether the foreign born had a higher per capita income than the native born ($15,033 vs. $14,367) in 1989, but their median family income was almost $4,000 less than that of the native born ($31,785 vs. $35,508).

IN 1940, 70% OF IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM EUROPE. IN 1992, 15% CAME FROM EUROPE, 37% FROM ASIA AND 44% FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.

In 1976 there were 67 Spanish-speaking radio stations. Now there are 311, plus 3 Spanish-language TV networks and 350 Spanish-language newspapers.

32 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE U.S. (13%) SPEAK LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AT HOME.

JAPANESE AMERICANS marry non-Japanese Americans about 65% of the time, an out- marriage rate so high that since 1981 the number of babies born in the U.S. with one white parent has exceeded the number with two Japanese parents.

Americans use 68% more spices today than a decade ago. The consumption of red pepper rose 105%, basil 190%.

88% of African-born residents had a high school education or higher in 1990, compared with 76% of Asian-born, 57% of Caribbean-born and 77% of native-born.

Seven out of 10 residents of Hialeah, Fla., are foreign-born. Other cities where more than half the population is foreign-born:

Miami, Fla. 60%

Huntington Park, Calif. 59%

Union City, N.J. 55%

Monterey Park, Calif. 52%

Miami Beach, Fla., Santa Ana, Calif. 51% each

The unemployment rate for the foreign born was 7.8% in 1990, compared with 6.2% for the native born.

More than 100 languages are spoken in the school systems of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Fairfax County, Va.

; In 1990 the population was: Anglo 76%, Black 12%, Latino 9%, Asian 3%. By 2050 the breakdown is projected to be: Anglo 52%, Black 16%, Latino 22%, Asian 10%.

IN 1990 THERE WERE MORE EUROPEAN DESCENDANTS -- including German, Irish, English, French, Dutch, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Swedish, Welsh and Danish, Portuguese, British and Swiss -- living in California than in any other state. New York led in the number of Italians, Poles and Russians; Minnesota in Norwegians; Texas in Czechs; Pennsylvania in Slovaks; and Ohio in Hungarians.

The foreign-born population in 1990 totaled a record 19.8 million (8%), surpassing previous highs of 14 million in 1930 and 1980.

Since 1901, 30% of the U.S. Nobel prize-winners have been immigrants.

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CAPTION: % who eat these ethnic foods at least once a week