Stats of our lives: The United States of Allergies
How being born in the U.S. makes you more prone to hay fever — and more in our collection of surprising facts and figures


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Percentage of U.S.-born kids with one allergic disease
20.3
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Percentage of foreign-born kids with one allergic disease
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Years of living in the U.S. that caused foreign-born kids to have significantly higher odds of developing allergies

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