One in seven Americans now foreign born; immigrant share rise highest from India YoY
US Census Board.
As per fresh statistics, as of July 2022, legal and illegal immigrants together account for 13.9 % of the total US population of 33-odd crore. This ratio stood at 13.6% a year earlier.
As far as immigration into the US goes, Mexico, China and India are the top three source countries.
Immigrants from India and China constitute 6% each of the total immigration count in 2022.
According to the 2022 census findings, the number of Indians is 28.4 lakh, up from 27.09 lakh a year ago.
This is an increase of 4.8%. In terms of percentage of growth, India tops the list.
Chinese immigrants, on the other hand, 28.3 lakh, a rise of nearly 3%.
Mexicans continued to top the list at 106.8 lakh (or 23% of the immigrant population).
Afghanistan and Venezuela accounted for 4.07 lakh and 6.7 lakh immigrants, respectively.
