A Look at Latino Immigrants

1. In 1980, Hispanics made up 6.5 percent of the U.S. population. What percentage did they make up in 2014?

9.8
12.7
17.3

2. Mexico is the largest source of Hispanic immigration to the United States. What is the second-largest place of origin for Hispanic immigrants?

Cuba
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic

3. Hispanic buying power was $495 billion in 2000. What was it in 2016?

$626 billion
$978 billion
$1.4 trillion

4. True or false: Hispanic buying power in the United States is larger than the gross domestic product of Mexico.

True
False

5. In what year did the U.S. Census Bureau announce that Hispanics were the largest minority group in the United States?

1993
2003
2013

6. In 2012, worldwide remittances to Latin American countries (including Mexico) totaled nearly $53 billion. What portion of that amount came from immigrants in the United States?

$21 billion
$31 billion
$41 billion

7. True or false: Growth in the U.S. Latino population accounted for more than half of the country’s population growth from 2000 to 2014.

True
False

8. Three counties in which state had the country’s fastest growth in Latino population from 2007 to 2014?

Texas
Georgia
North Dakota

9. More than 60 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population live in which five states?

California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona
California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and Texas

10. The number of Latino-owned businesses in the United States grew by what rate from 2007 to 2012?

19.7 percent
29.1 percent
46.3 percent

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A Look at Latino Immigrants