US Census Bureau: Net International Migration Projected to Fall to Lowest Levels This Decade

Anthony Kanapp for US Census writes that net international migration added 595,000 to the U.S. population between 2018 and 2019, the lowest level this decade. This is a notable drop from this decade’s high of 1,047,000 between 2015 and 2016.

Released yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2019 population estimates show that international migration added about 7.9 million people to the nation’s population since the last census in 2010. Annual growth in net international migration slowed between 2015 and 2016 and has been declining since.

Migration patterns measured since 2015 primarily reflect three major trends: declining immigration of the foreign born, increasing foreign-born emigration, and changes in Puerto Rican migration following Hurricane Maria in September 2017.

China replaced Mexico to become the largest sending country of foreign-born immigrants to the United States as of 2018.

KJ