Nigerian Americans: Difference between revisions

{{lang-yo|Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà}}) are an ethnic group of [[Americans]] who are of [[Nigerian]] ancestry. The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States is rapidly growing, expanding from a small 1980 population of 25,000.<ref name ="mgi">{{cite web|date=June 2015|title=The Nigerian Diaspora in the United States|url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publications/RAD-Nigeria.pdf|access-date=2020-07-05|publisher=Migration Policy Institute}}</ref> The 2019 [[American Community Survey]] (ACS) estimates that 461,695 U.S. residents report Nigerian ancestry.<ref name="factfinder.census.gov">{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_1YR_B04006&prodType=table |title=Table |access-date=2019-10-24 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214060948/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_1YR_B04006&prodType=table |archive-date=February 14, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The 2019 ACS also estimates that around 85% are foreign-born, with 392,811 U.S. residents reporting [[Nigeria]] as their birthplace.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_5YR/B05006/0100000US |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213005704/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/16_5YR/B05006/0100000US |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-02-13 |title=Data |access-date=2019-10-24 }}</ref> The survey did not take into account [[illegal immigrant]]s or non-participants, which could mean that many more uncounted Nigerians live throughout the United States. Similar to its status as the most populous country in Africa,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=NG |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012507/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=NG |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Nigeria is also the African country with the most migrants to the United States, as of 2013.<ref name="worldbank.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/migrationremittancesdiasporaissues/brief/migration-remittances-data |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223081114/http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/migrationremittancesdiasporaissues/brief/migration-remittances-data |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>