Bloomberg ranks Nigerians working in the United States as the eight most hardworking foreigners in the country. Ghana scored 75.2 percent in the list of the hardest and most skilled immigrant groups in the US which makes them top Nigerians with 71.0 percent.
The report shows that Bulgaria and Kenya were ranked second and third with 74.2 percent and 73.4 percent respectively. Other African countries in the top 10 are Ethiopia (4th), Egypt (5th), and Liberia (9th), making Africans in general the most productive immigrants in the US ahead of those from Mexico and Central America, who constitute more than 70 percent of foreign nationals in the country.
Justin Fox, Bloomberg journalist came up with the report saying “If we want more high-skilled, hardworking, English-speaking, ready-to-integrate immigrants, it looks like the most obvious place to find them is in African countries where English is widely spoken”.
The report put the number of Nigerian legal immigrants in the U.S. at 262,603. Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Ghana have the highest number of citizens pursuing higher education in the US after Saudi Arabia.
Immigrants from Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are near the top in both employment-population ratio and higher-education enrollment.
The report, which was developed from the 2016 US Census Bureau American Community Survey, ranked Nigeria 8th among the Most-Educated Immigrant Groups in the U.S. Nigeria sandwiched between Australia (7th) and Malaysia (9th).
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