The United States was partly built by immigrants. An immigrant is someone who leaves their country of birth to migrate permanently in another. Today, 14% of Americans are born abroad, with more than half being naturalized citizens. Nearly 75% of immigrants from different backgrounds around the world report that they speak English fluently or very well. The states with the most immigrants are California with 27% and New York with 22.6%. These are some facts about the immigrant population in the United States.
One-seventh of Americans are immigrants, and one-eighth are native-born citizens with at least one immigrant family member.
- 5% of the nation’s population were foreign-born immigrants in 2018, which was 44.7 million.
- 9 million Americans were women and 20.3 million men. 2.5 million immigrants were children.
- Mexico was the top country of origin for immigrants with 25%, 6 percent, China (5 percent), India (4 percent), El Salvador (3%)
- The United States had 39.4 Million people (12 percent) who were born in the United States and had at least one immigrant father.
More than half of all immigrants to the United States are naturalized citizens.
- As of 2018, 22.6 million immigrants (51%) had naturalized, and 8.4 millions immigrants were eligible to become naturalized U.S citizensin 2017.
- 74% of immigrants reported that they speak English “very well” or “well”.
The United States has a concentration of immigrants at both ends the educational spectrum.
- A third of adult immigrants in 2018 had a college degree, or more education than that. More than a quarter had less than a high school diploma.
Education Level | Share (%) of All Immigrants | Share (%) of All Natives |
College degree or more | 32 | 33 |
Some college | 19 | 31 |
High school diploma only | 22 | 28 |
Less than a high-school diploma | 27 | 8 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2018 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates. | ||
Millions live in the United States with at least one undocumented family member.
- 7 million undocumented immigrantmade up 24 percent of the immigrant community and 3 percent of all U.S. citizens in 2016.
- 7 million people lived in the United States between 2010 and 2014 with at least one family member.
- In the same time frame, 1 out 12 children in the country were U.S citizens living with at least one family member (a total of 5.9 million children).
More than 652,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients (DACA) reside in the United States.
- As of March 2020, approximately 643,560 active DACA beneficiaries lived in the United States, its territories, and DACA has been granted total to 825,998 individuals since 2012.
- As of 2019, 49 per cent of DACA-eligible immigrantin the United States had submitted for DACA.
- Additional 363,000 Americans would meet all the requirements of DACA. Another 39,000 people would also be eligible as they age.
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