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Where Immigrants Come From
About This Indicator
What Does This Chart Show?
Everyone living in the United States who was not a U.S. citizen at birth, naturalized citizens included, split by where they were born: Mexico, the rest of Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and everywhere else. From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, yearly since 2005; there was no 2020 release.
What It Says
Mexico's share began to fall after 2007, in the slow recovery from the Great Recession: Asia passed it in 2012, and the rest of Latin America in 2018.
Key Idea
It counts people who live here, whatever their status, not people arriving, so it moves slowly: it is the sum of decades of arrivals, departures, and deaths. A shrinking slice need not mean fewer people, only that others grew faster.
Source: Census Bureau. American Community Survey 1-year, Table B05006.
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