Hispanics comprised 13% of the nation's total population. (This does not include the 3.8 million Hispanics enumerated in Puerto Rico.) States of California was home to 11.0 million Latinos and Texas, to 6.7 million. About 3 in 4 Hispanics lived in the seven states that had 1 million or more Latinos each: California, Texas, New York, Florida. Illinois, Arizona, and New Jersey. Out of the 297 million U.S. populations, Hispanic represents over 44 million making then the largest minority

in the United States of America.. The Latino community represents over 800 million buying powers in the United States.

There are 1.2 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States in 1997. These firms employed more than 1.3 million people and generated $186.3 billion in revenues. Hispanic-owned firms made up 6% of the nation's 20.8 million non-farm businesses. 28% of Hispanic-owned firmsare owned by women in 1997. $30,735 is the median income of Hispanic households in 1999, the highest ever recorded.

Latinos represent nearly half of the total Foreign-Born Population in the U.S. These facts and figures come from the Current Population Survey, Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises, Census 2000 and the Statistical Abstract.

The report covers geographic, demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics of the country’s foreign-born population. Accompanying it are more than 400 pages of tables, including data on country or area of birth and state and metropolitan area of residence. Statistics from sample surveys are subject to sampling and non-sampling error.