If present trends continue, the foreign-born population will reach 62.5 million in 2030 and 82.2 million by 2040 - larger than the current combined populations of 30 states plus the District of Columbia.
6 It is also the case that the 2.8 million increase in just the last year is the largest increase in 25 years and may also be the largest one-year increase in the foreign-born population ever.7.
Table 1 shows the foreign-born population by region in January 2021, the month President Biden took office, and each March from 2021 to 2024.9 Growth in the foreign-born population is being driven by immigrants from Latin America, whose number has grown by 4.2 million since January 2021, with South America up 1.5 million, Central America up 1.1 million, and the Caribbean up nearly 900,000.
While immigration on this scale may seem unlikely, it must be remembered that before it happened, the 5.1 million increase in the foreign-born population in just the last two years would also have been seen as unlikely.
If the trends since President Biden took office continue, the foreign-born population would reach 62.5 million in 2030 and 82.2 million by 2040 - larger than the current combined populations of 30 states plus the District of Columbia.
6 Looking at Figure 4, we see that historically, prior to 1994, the 5.7 million increase from 1980 to 1990 was the only decade where growth in the foreign-born population was larger than 5.1 million, making it theoretically possible that there was a two-year period in which growth was larger than the increase in the last two years.
The margin of error around the total foreign-born population of 51.6 million in March 2024 is ±573,000, and it was ±554,000 for the 46.6 million in January 2022.
https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Population-Grew-51-Million-Last-Two-Years
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