United States - International migrant stock

International migrant stock, total

The value for International migrant stock, total in United States was 46,627,100 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46,627,100 in 2015 and a minimum value of 10,825,600 in 1960.

Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

Source: United Nations Population Division, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: 2012 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 10,825,600
1965 11,354,440
1970 11,973,790
1975 13,991,350
1980 16,364,410
1985 19,491,740
1990 23,251,030
1995 28,451,050
2000 34,814,050
2005 39,258,290
2010 44,183,640
2015 46,627,100

International migrant stock (% of population)

International migrant stock (% of population) in United States was 14.49 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 14.49 in 2015, while its lowest value was 9.20 in 1990.

Definition: International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.

Source: United Nations Population Division, Trends in Total Migrant Stock: 2008 Revision.

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Year Value
1990 9.20
1995 10.68
2000 12.31
2005 13.26
2010 14.26
2015 14.49

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Migration