2014 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: Naturalizations
Jennifer Koh posted a link to the 2014 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, which was recently released by the Department of Homeland Security. I have been posting on various statistics and have highlighted data in the Yearbook that I find interesting. So far, I have offered some data and thoughts on removals, lawful immigrants, refugees, and asylum.
Naturalizations over the last few years have been between 600,000 and 800,000 a year.
Persons Naturalized (p. 53, Table 21)
2010 619,913
2011 694,193
2012 757,434
2013 779,929
2014 653,416
In 2014, Asia (233,163) and North America (222,547) by far had many more naturalizations than Africa, Europe, and South America, all which were in the 60-70,000 range.
In 2014, the top countries or origin for newly naturalized U.S. citizens were Mexico (94,889), India (37,854), the Philippines (34,591 China (30,284), and Cuba (24,092).
KJ