The current growth of the foreign-born population is not unprecedented: Annual population growth by country of birth and time period

Source Foreign Born U.S. Born
2022–2023 ACS 3.60% 0.0%
2022–2023 CPS 3.7% 0.2%
2022–2023 CBO/CPS 4.8% 0.2%
1994–2000 CPS 5.6% 0.6%
1990–2000 Census 4.6% 0.9%

Note: Annual foreign-born and US-born growth is the annualized change in the population levels over the given time period. ACS, CPS, CBO stand for American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and Congressional Budget Office, respectively.

Source: 2023 and 2023 ACS population levels from the one-year American Community Survey estimates retrieved from https://data.census.gov on September 12, 2024. 1994, 2000, 2022, and 2023 CPS population levels from EPI analysis of the Current Population Survey Basic Monthly microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.52 (2024), https://microdata.epi.org. 2022 and 2023 Congressional Budget Office/CPS population levels are from Congressional Budget Office, The Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054, January 18, 2024 (Social Security Area total population levels are from Figure 2 and the CPS-based foreign-born population shares are from in Appendix B). To account for population level discontinuities between the 1994 and 2000 CPS, to calculate foreign-born and US-born population totals for those years we use the foreign-born and US-born shares from the CPS multiplied by the Social Security area population totals from CBO. 1990 and 2000 Census population levels from Table 1 of U.S. Census Bureau, The Foreign-Born Population: 2000, December 2003.

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