Global business magazine,
Bloomberg has ranked Nigerians working in the United States as the eighth most
hardworking foreigners in that country.
In a 2018 report released
yesterday, Nigerians scored 71.0 percent in the list of the hardest and most
skilled immigrant groups in the US which was topped by Ghana with 75.2 percent.
Bulgaria and Kenya were ranked
second and third with 74.2 percent and 73.4 percent respectively. Other African
countries in the report’s top 10 are Ethiopia (4th), Egypt (5th), and Liberia
(9th).
This makes Africans in general
the most productive immigrants in the US ahead of those from Mexico and Central
America, who constitute more than 70 percent of foreign nationals in that
country.
Mexico is by far the most common
country of origin, but the population of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. (both
documented and undocumented) actually fell 6 percent from 2007 to 2015,
according to the Pew Research Centre.
The numbers of Salvadorans,
Hondurans and Guatemalans in the U.S. continued to grow.
“If we want more high-skilled,
hardworking, English-speaking, ready-to-integrate immigrants, it looks like the
most obvious place to find them is in African countries where English is widely
spoken,” Bloomberg journalist Justin Fox, who came up with the report, said.
The report, developed from the
2016 US Census Bureau American Community Survey, ranked Nigeria 8th among the
Most-Educated Immigrant Groups in the U.S.
Nigeria sandwiched between
Australia (7th) and Malaysia (9th).
The report put the number of
Nigerian legal immigrants in the U.S. at 262,603.
According to the report, Kenya,
Nigeria, Nepal and Ghana have the highest number of citizens pursuing higher
education in the US after Saudi Arabia.
Immigrants from Kenya, Nigeria
and Ghana are near the top in both employment-population ratio and
higher-education enrollment, it said.
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