USA - United States of America

Missions teams in USA Jack & Kay Rudd (WO Director) Jack Wenzel (Office Manager) - no profile

geography
. Area 9,529,063 sq. km. The world's third largest nation in area and population

capital
Waschington DC. 745,000. Other major cities: New York 20.2 mill,; Los Angeles 16m; Chicago 8.8m; Washington-Baltimore 7.3m; San Fransisco 6.85m.
Urbanites 76%.

Population
2000    278,357,141
2010    297,988,985
2025    325, 572, 586

Immigration rates are high with 42 million foreign-born and approx. 3,000 legal immigrants arriving daily.

people
A nation of immigrants wuth the greatest ethnic-origin diversity of any nation in history.
Euro-American 70.7%
Afro-America 12.42%
Latin Mestizo 7%
Asian 4.5%
Middle Eastern 4.3%
Native American 0.9%
Polynesian 0.2%

literacy 96%

language
Official language: English. The growing spanish-speaking Hispanic population is 11.2% of the population and numbers 34million.
All indigenous languages: 176, of which 77 are close to extinction.
Numberous languages and dialects still used by immigrants from all continents. About 13% of the population uses a language other than English in the home.
Idigenous languages with Scriptures: 6Bi 11NT 39por 25w.i.p.

religion
Freedom of religion is written into the constitution.
No state in the world has been so strongly influenced by biblical Christianity.
The people of the seperation of Church and State has been misused by liberal and anti-Christian minirities to limit the public exercise of religion and to promote permissive legeslation.
The Religious Freedom Act of 1998 was passed to empower the President to act against nations reported as persecuting religious minorities.

Religions Chrisitian Non-religious/other Jewish Muslim Buddhist Other religions Traditional Ethnic Hindu Baha'i Sikh Chinese

Population % 84.53 9.40 2.00 1.49 0.90 0.52 0.40 0.38 0.26 0.07 0.05

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