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Sep 27, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Mohamad Moslimani |Jeffrey S. Passel
NowFuturist Ray Kurzweil likes to make predictions about technology. Indeed, he’s been making them since 1963 and has amassed a following in the millions. In his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near, he predicted that by 2045, machines would become as smart as humans. Due to advancing technology, he’s …
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | Mohamad Moslimani |Jeffrey S. Passel
The United States has long had more immigrants than any other country. In fact, the U.S. is home to one-fifth of the world’s international migrants. These immigrants come from just about every country in the world. Pew Research Center regularly publishes research on U.S. immigrants. Based on this research, here are answers to some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | John Gramlich |Jeffrey S. Passel
The number of immigrants living in the United States increased by roughly 1.6 million people in 2023. That marks the largest single-year increase in the nation’s immigrant population since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of recently published data from the U.S. Census Bureau. This Pew Research Center analysis examines the number and share of immigrants living in the United States and how these figures have changed over time.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | Mark Hugo Lopez |Jens Krogstad |Jeffrey S. Passel
Debates over who is Hispanic have often fueled conversations about identity among Americans who trace their heritage to Latin America or Spain. So, who is considered Hispanic in the United States today? How exactly do the federal government and others count the Hispanic population? And what role does race play in deciding who counts as Hispanic? We’ll answer these and other common questions here.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | Jeffrey S. Passel |Jens Krogstad
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States grew to 11.0 million in 2022, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on the 2022 American Community Survey, the most recent year available. The increase from 10.5 million in 2021 reversed a long-term downward trend from 2007 to 2019. This is the first sustained increase in the unauthorized immigrant population since the period from 2005 to 2007.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | Jeffrey S. Passel |Jens Krogstad |Mohamad Moslimani
The United States is the for people moving from one country to another. Over 70 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. About 18 million have come from Mexico, making up the from a single country to the U.S.In 2022, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a high of 46.1 million, accounting for 13.8% of the population.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
pewresearch.org | Mohamad Moslimani |Jeffrey S. Passel
The United States has long had more immigrants than any other country. In fact, the U.S. is home to one-fifth of the world’s international migrants. These immigrants have come from just about every country in the world. Pew Research Center regularly publishes research on U.S. immigrants. Based on this research, here are answers to some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
pewresearch.org | Jeffrey S. Passel |Jens Krogstad
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States reached 10.5 million in 2021, according to new Pew Research Center estimates. That was a modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017. The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2021 remained below its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. It was about the same size as in 2004 and lower than every year from 2005 to 2015.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
pewresearch.org | Jeffrey S. Passel |Jens Krogstad
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States reached 10.5 million in 2021, according to new Pew Research Center estimates. That was a modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017. The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2021 remained below its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. It was about the same size as in 2004 and lower than every year from 2005 to 2015.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
pewresearch.org | Mark Hugo Lopez |Jens Krogstad |Jeffrey S. Passel
Debates over who is Hispanic and who is not have often fueled conversations about identity among Americans who trace their heritage to Latin America or Spain. Recently, results from the 2020 census have drawn attention to how Hispanic identity is defined and measured in the United States.
