What is the Size of the Ethiopian Population in the United States?
By Fikru Helebo, enset | October 17, 2006 One of the big news items of the day in the United States is about the US population count surpassing the 300 million mark today. This figure is a statistical projection and not the actual count of people who reside in the US. This got me thinking about the size of the Ethiopian population in the US. How large is it? That depends on whom you ask. An Ethiopian would probably estimate the Ethiopian population in the US to be any where from 200,000 to 300,000. The estimate from an expert in the US Census Bureau, on the other hand, will probably be a lot lower than that. According to the last US census in 2000, the estimated number of people in the US who were born in Ethiopia was 69,530. This figure does not include those persons who were born in the US. I suppose most Ethiopians in the US will dispute this figure as being low. I do not know what formula the US Census Bureau used to come up with a number like the above, but I am pretty sure the ra
