Key charts and statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018.
After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the nation’s immigrant population is now in decline. In January 2025, 53.3 million immigrants lived in the United States – the largest number ever recorded. In the ensuing months, however, more immigrants left the country or were deported than arrived ...
The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. reached an all-time high after two consecutive years of record growth.
Generally, the trends in births to unauthorized immigrants follow the growth and decline of the unauthorized immigrant population.
Overview of this report This report explores the dynamics shaping the population of immigrants living in the U.S. without full lawful status. It provides a complete estimate and profile for the unauthorized immigrant population in 2023 based on the best data currently available. The report also provides a look at how the population has since changed, sketching out trends based on incomplete ...
The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.
The number of immigrants living in the U.S. grew by about 1.6 million people in 2023, the largest annual increase by number since 2000.
The unauthorized immigrant population’s size and composition has ebbed and flowed significantly over the past 30 years.
We used four different methods to estimate the unauthorized immigrant population in Europe: Residual method – the total number of authorized immigrants in a country subtracted from the total number of non-EU-EFTA citizens – is the primary method used to estimate the size of the unauthorized immigrant population in EU-EFTA countries.