European American - European Ancestries Table

European Ancestries Table

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Ancestry 1980 % of U.S.
1980		 1990 % of U.S.
1990		 2000 % of U.S.
2000		 Change, 1990 to 2000
Albanian 38,658 0.02% 47,710 0.02% 113,661 0.04% +138.2%
Azeris 4,563 0.002% 12,737 0.01% 24,377 0.01% +91.2%
Armenian 214,362 0.09% 296,672 0.1% 385,488 0.1% +29.3%
American no data no data 12,395,999 5.0% 20,188,305 7.2% +62.9%
Austrian 948,558 0.42% 864,783 0.3% 730,336 0.3% -15.5%
Basque 43,140 0.02% 47,956 0.02% 57,793 0.02% +20.5%
Belarusian 600,000 0.2%
Belgian 360,277 0.16% 380,403 0.2% 348,531 0.1% -08.4%
Bosnian 350,000 0.1%
British ? ? 1,119,140 0.4% 1,085,718 0.4% -03.0%
Bulgarian 42,504 0.02% 29,595 0.01% 55,489 0.02% +87.5%
Croatian 252,970 0.11% 544,270 0.2% 374,241 0.1% -31.2%
Cypriot 7.643
Czech 1,892,456 0.84% 1,296,369 0.5% 1,258,452 0.4% -02.9%
Danish 1,518,273 0.67% 1,634,648 0.7% 1,430,897 0.5% -12.5%
Dutch 6,304,499 2.78% 6,226,339 2.5% 4,541,770 1.6% -27.1%
English 49,598,035 21.89% 32,651,788 13.1% 24,509,692 8.7% -24.9%
Estonian 25,994 0.01% 26,762 0.01% 25,034 0.01% -06.5%
Finnish 615,872 0.27% 658,854 0.3% 623,559 0.2% -05.4%
French 12,892,246 5.69% 10,320,656 4.1% 13,172,178 4.0% -19.5%
Georgian 6.298
German 49,224,146 21.73% 57,947,171 23.3% 42,841,569 15.2% -26.1%
Greek 959,856 0.42% 1,110,292 0.4% 1,153,295 0.4% +03.9%
Hungarian 1,776,902 0.78% 1,582,302 0.6% 1,398,702 0.5% -11.6%
Icelandic 32,586 0.01% 40,529 0.02% 42,716 0.01% +05.4%
Irish 40,165,702 17.73% 38,735,539 15.6% 30,524,799 10.8% -21.2%
Italian 12,183,692 5.38% 14,664,189 5.9% 15,638,348 5.6% +06.6%
Latvian 92,141 0.04% 100,331 0.04% 87,564 0.03% -12.7%
Liechtensteiner 1,244 0.0004
Lithuanian 742,776 0.33% 811,865 0.3% 659,992 0.2% -18.7%
Luxembourg 45,139 0.01% -/+ 0%
Macedonia 57,200 0.02% -/+ -6,927%
Maltese 31,645 0.01% 39,600 0.02% 40,159 0.01% +01.4%
Moldavian 7,859 0.003
Montenegrin 80,000 0.03%
Norwegian 3,453,839 1.52% 3,869,395 1.6% 4,477,725 1.6% +15.7%
Pennsylvania Dutch 255,807 0.1%
Polish 8,228,037 3.63% 9,366,051 3.8% 8,977,235 3.2% -04.2%
Portuguese 1,024,351 0.45% 1,148,857 0.5% 1,173,691 0.4% +02.2%
Romanian 315,258 0.14% 365,531 0.1% 367,278 0.1% +0.5%
Russian 2,781,432 1.23% 2,951,373 1.2% 2,652,214 0.9% -10.1%
Scots-Irish 16,418 0.007% 5,617,773 2.3% 4,319,232 1.5% -23.1%
Scottish 10,048,816 4.44% 5,393,581 2.2% 4,890,581 1.7% -09.3%
Serbian 100,941 0.04% 116,795 0.05% 51,679 0.05% -50%
Slovak 776,806 0.3% 1,882,897 0.8% 797,764 0.3% -57.6%
Slovene 126,463 0.06 124,437 0.1% 176,691 0.1% +42%
Spanish 94,528 0.04% 360,858 0.1% 299,948 0.1% -16.9%
Swedish 4,345,392 1.92% 4,680,863 1.9% 3,998,310 1.4% -14.6%
Swiss 981,543 0.43% 1,045,492 0.4% 911,502 0.3% -12.8%
Turkish 75,988 0.03% 86,427 0.17% 117,575 0.1% +36%
Ukrainian 730,056 0.32% 740,723 0.3% 892,922 0.3% +20.5%
Welsh 1,664,598 0.73% 2,033,893 0.82% 1,753,794 0.6% -13.8%
Yugoslavs 328,547 0.1%
European 1,968,696 0.7%
Scandinavians 425,099 0.2%
Total 214,726,269 94.78% 223,371,445 89.81% 201,290,597 71.53% -18,28%

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