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09-12-2006, 02:30 PM
The Dominican overseas community grew by 17.5% between 2000 and 2005, representing an additional 257,364 individuals, according to estimates by the Quisqueya Foundation. Economists Frank Valenzuela and Hector Frias, president and executive director of the foundation, said that the number of Dominican emigrants had increased from 1,371,441 to 1,628,195 during that period, according to a report in El Caribe. The data was obtained from estimates by the US Census Bureau, the National Statistics Institute and the Spanish Interior Ministry, the Federal Statistical Office in Germany and the Statistical Office of the European Communities (EUROSTAT). Other sources included the Census Offices in Panama, Venezuela and Canada, as well as research by the World Migration Office that analyzes migratory trends in Latin America and the world.
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