New York.– A new analysis of data about the U.S. foreign-born population finds that a higher percentage of people born in India have a bachelor's degree or higher (74 percent) than people born in any other foreign country. Egypt and Nigeria had rates above 60 percent.

foreign-born Somalis and Kenyans are the most likely to be newcomers –with nearly 60 percent entering the United States in 2000 or later– and Somalis are among the youngest and poorest.

Based on 2007 data from the American Community Survey (ACS), these figures come from new detailed characteristic profiles on the foreign-born population –people who were not U.S. citizens at birth– available by country of birth.

Among people for whom poverty status is determined, about 51 percent of residents born in Somalia are living in poverty. About a quarter of the population born in Iraq, the Dominican Republic, Jordan and Mexico are also living in poverty. U.S. residents born in the Netherlands and Ireland are on the low end of that spectrum, with each having a poverty rate of about 5 percent.