What's Happening at the Center
In their latest analysis, Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler find that both legal and illegal immigrants are coming to the United States at significantly older ages than in the past. The average age of all immigrants increased from 39 to 45 years between 2000 and 2017. This is more than twice as fast as the average age increase for the nation's overall population. The number of working-age (18-64) immigrants increased by 42 percent but the number over the age of 64 increased by 108 percent. These findings have implications for the often-made argument that immigration makes the country significantly younger. The findings also have implications for public coffers because prior research indicates that younger immigrants tend to have a more positive lifetime fiscal impact than older immigrants.
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