New Report on the Nation?s Foreign-Born Population
From 2010 to 2022, the nation?s foreign-born population increased by 15.6%. According to a new report, The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022, released by the U.S. Census Bureau today, the foreign-born population was 46.2 million (13.9% of the total population) in 2022 compared to 40.0 million (12.9% of the total population) in 2010.
The report compares 2010 and 2022 American Community Survey (ACS), 1-year estimates to provide insight into the changing composition of the foreign-born population in the United States. The foreign-born population consists of anyone living in the United States who was not a U.S. citizen at birth, including naturalized U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (immigrants), temporary migrants such as foreign students, humanitarian migrants (for example, refugees and asylees) and unauthorized migrants.
 New on America Counts
The number of foreign-born people in the United States rose by more than 5 million over 10 years to 45.3 million or 13.7% of the nation's population, according to the?2018-2022 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates.?
We compare estimates for the 2018-2022 period to the 5-year ACS period a decade earlier (2008-2012) when there were 39.8 million foreign-born people, or 12.9% of the population.
A?new Census Bureau visualization?explores where immigrants lived in the United States and how it changed between the two five-year periods at the national, state and county level.
It also features select indicators of socio-cultural and economic integration at the national level. Data users can look at the foreign-born population overall or select a specific place of birth, including regions (e.g., Africa), sub regions (e.g., Eastern Africa) and countries (e.g., Ethiopia).
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