The Foreign Born Population on Guam, 1990

The Foreign Born Population on Guam, 1990 (PDF). Bureau of Planning, Government of Guam. February 1998.

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Abstract: During this century, the most dramatic change in Guam's population structure occurred during the 1940s, as a result of World War II. Prior to World War II, 95 percent of Guam's population was born here; fewer than 1,000 persons were born elsewhere. The War effort resulted in as many as 100,000 U.S. armed forces personnel and civilian civil service workers being assigned to Guam. Most U.S. military personnel left the island at the War's end. Nonetheless, Guam's population structure was forever altered by a continuing large military presence and the requirement of that presence for skilled labor. The proportion of persons born outside Guam rose from 5 percent in 1940 to 55 percent in 1950...