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| 2,921 (ancestry and ethnic origin. 2000 US Census)[1] Estimated 20,837 (Only born in Tanzania and emigrated to United States, 2008-2010 US Census)[2] | |
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Tanzanian Americans are Americans of Tanzanian descent. In the 2000 US Census, 2,921 people reported Tanzanian ancestry. To this figure we must adhere some people (less of 300 each) that hailed be of "Tanganyika" and "Zanzibar Islanders" descend.[1] Between 2009-2011 were registered 20,308 Tanzanians living in United States (this figure excludes Americans descended from Tanzanians).[2]
A drought in Tanzania during the early 1980s caused a worsening of economic conditions in the country and motivated some people to emigrate, arriving in the United States in appreciable numbers beginning in 1986 with the arrival of 370 Tanzanians.[3]
- ^ a b "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
- ^ a b Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). "American FactFinder - Results". Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ "Tanzanians", Encyclopedia of Chicago, authored by Tramayne M. Butler, 2005