Bangladeshi’s are immigrating to USA every year, but their number is very small compare to India, Mexico or other countries. According to the latest Census American Community Survey of 2008, last year approximately 1860 people of Bangladeshi Origin were added to the USA population list. The list has margin of error of +/- 9889. Of these, 79,184 are naturalized USA citizens. In 2007, median age of the people was 36.9 years and in 2008, the median age increased to 38 years.
Of the total population in USA in 2008, 54.9 percent was male and 45.1 percent was female, which was 53.8 percent and 46.2 percent in the previous year. Of the total Bangladeshi population, 67.7% are in the labor force and only 4.1 percent are unemployed, which is better than the national rate, which was 4.2 percent in 2008.
In 2008, the median household income of Bangladeshi family increases by 5586 dollars which was 45,033 dollars in 2007 and 50,619 dollars in 2008. The national average family household income in USA was 52,029 dollars in 2008. That means, on average Bangladeshi’s are doing fairly well compare to the national average household income. The per capita income of Individual Bangladeshi’s was 25, 546 dollars and nationwide USA average was 27, 589 dollars.
In 2008, the average family size of Bangladeshi family was 4.11, which was higher than the national average of 3.22. Nevertheless, the family size declined by whopping .06 which was 4.17 in 2007. That means the average family size of Bangladeshi’s had shrinked while the average family size in USA increased by .02 in 2008.
Comparing to India and Pakistan, Bangladeshi’s position is relatively small in USA. India has a individual per capita income of 50,258 dollars and Pakistan has 36,135 dollars in 2008. Both of these countries median family household income is a lot higher, which was for India 93,731 dollars and Pakistan 65,036 dollars. On the education level above 25 years of age, India has a lot higher rate with Bachelor degree of 33.5 percent and Graduate degree of 40.6 percent. Bangladesh has only 29 percent and 20.2 percent respectively.
Historically in USA, the higher your income level, the higher your participation & influence in the administration activities of USA and the more notice you get from the USA government. In order to be noticed by the USA administration, Bangladeshi’s needs to increase their per capita income, education and also their population numbers, which will in turn raise their status to the USA Administration.
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