A recently released report has ranked Kenyan immigrants living in the United States as the third most hardworking group of immigrants.
The 2018 report by Bloomberg analyzed work and job skill among immigrant groups in the United States. Ghanaians were ranked first with a score 75.2% followed by Bulgarians with 74.2%.
In general, the report says Africans are the most learned and ambitious immigrants in America.
"African-born immigrants to the US are more skilled, harder-working, and more ready to integrate than those who come from other parts of the world," said the report developed by Bloomberg’s Justin Fox, a famed American financial journalist.
“If we want more high-skilled and hardworking English-speaking immigrants, it looks like the most obvious place to find them is in Africa."
Immigrants from Ethiopia, Guatemala and those from El Savado were ranked fourth, fifth and sixth respectively in the most hardworking list, followed by Bosnians, Nigerians, Liberians and Hondurans in that order.
The report was developed based on data from the 2016 US Census Bureau American Community Survey, which showed Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Nepal had the highest number of immigrants living in the US enrolled in college.
"So immigrants from Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana are near the top in both employment-population ratio and higher-education enrollment, and those from Nigeria are also near the top in educational attainment," says the report.
Immigrants from Hungary, Italy, Greece, and Germany have the lowest employment-population ratios among foreign-born populations – mainly because they arrived in the US decades ago and many of them are now in their 60s or older.
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