Dataset
Average annual change in the foreign-born population of the United States, by decade
owid.decadal-change-foreign-born-us
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About
Average change per year in the number of people living in the United States who were not US citizens at birth. The value for the 2020s covers 2021 to 2024.
Cite as: US Census Bureau (2006, 2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Average annual change in the foreign-born population of the United States, by decade” [dataset]. US Census Bureau, “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000”; US Census Bureau, “American Community Survey” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1850–2029
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-22
- Units
- people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/decadal-change-foreign-born-us
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| annual_change | number | Average annual change in the foreign-born population of the United States, by decade (people) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |