Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Brief Article

American Demographics, May 1, 2001

Head Count

The Children are the Future

Go to School

Stop by for a Visit

Extend-a-Stay

Bring Home the Bacon

Plugged-in

Minority count*

Working women

Unemployment rate

COUNTRY BY COUNTRY

WORD TRAVELS

Don't let the name fool you: We at American Demographics are not as single-minded as our name implies. To prove it, we're dedicating this page to our friends beyond the Land of the Brave. In getting to know our neighboring countrymen, we discovered some interesting bet-you-didn't-know facts. For instance, south of our border, 34 percent of all Mexicans are under the age of 15, according to the United Nations Statistics Division. That means more than a third of the nation's residents were born after the Mario Brothers saved their first princess. Talk about a Baby Boom. And anyone who thought that all Canadians spoke either English or French have it wrong. In fact, almost 3 percent of Canadians speak Chinese - the country's third most-spoken language, according to Statistics Canada, the Canuck's equivalent of our Census Bureau. For comparison, less than 1 percent of the U.S. population speaks Chinese (0.57 percent); ranking 5th. Interesting, eh?