article_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks made up just 3.1 per cent of the black population in 1980, but Foreign-born blacks accounted for 8.7 per cent of that group in 2013, according to a report from the Pew Research Center.
article_snippet.sent: With 3.8 million foreign-born blacks already living in the United States, the Pew Research Center estimates 16.5 per cent of the US black population will be comprised of immigrants by 2060.
article_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks were 3.1 per cent of the black population in 1980, but made up 8.7 per cent of group in 2013 .
article_snippet.sent: The immigrant increase is especially notable in cities with large black populations.
article_snippet.sent: In the Miami metro area, about 34 per cent of blacks are foreign-born compared to 28 per cent in New York City and 15 per cent in Washington, DC.
article_snippet.sent: The shift is causing the black population in the US to become less homogenous, the Washington Post reported.
article_snippet.sent: Black immigrants tend to be older, more likely to have a college degree and less likely to live in poverty than the US-born population, according to the Pew report.
article_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks are also more likely to be married and have a higher income.
article_snippet.sent: Demographer William Frey said: 'Just because Foreign-born blacks’re new immigrants, Foreign-born blacks have different needs and patterns, probably in terms of language in many cases, in terms of assimilation. '
article_snippet.sent: And so Foreign-born blacks probably shouldn’t be confused with native-born blacks in lots of ways, who have Foreign-born blacks own needs to be addressed.
article_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks are more likely to be married and mostly have higher incomes than the US-born population .
highlights_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks made up 3.1 per cent of the black population in 1980 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: That number has been on rise and Foreign-born blacks were 8.7 per cent of group in 2013 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Black immigrants more likely to have college degree and have a higher income and are less likely to live in poverty than the US-born population .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Foreign-born blacks are now large part of population in NYC, DC and Miami .