Population of U.S. Pacific Territories Mostly Native
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WASHINGTON — American Samoa’s population is 58% native, 71% of the residents in the Northern Marianas were born there and natives make up 97% of the population in the Trust Territory of the Pacific, the Census Bureau said Wednesday in a report on the residents of U.S. Pacific territories. Fewer than half of the persons on Guam were born there, the bureau said.
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