According to an analysis in El Caribe, the year 2000 US Census shows that the Dominican population in the United States has increased 47% in the past 10 years. It has gone from 520,151 in 1990 to 764,945 last year. The census shows that Dominicans make up 2.2% of the Hispanic population, that is in turn 12% of the total US population. The census shows Dominicans make up the fourth largest group of Latin Americans behind the 20.6 million Mexicans, 3.5 million Puerto Ricans, and 1.2 million Cubans. In Puerto Rico, the same census estimates there are 106,400 persons, or 2.8% of the total Puerto Rican population. In the US, Dominicans are concentrated in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Florida. The average age of Dominicans in the US is 29.5 years.
