Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States

Luis Hassan Gallardo and Jeanne Batalova for Migration Information Source provide information about the  Venezuelan immigrant population in the United States.  That population has more than tripled in size since the turn of the century, and much of this growth has occurred in just a few years, as Venezuela’s economic and political destabilization has led to a mass exodus across the Americas and beyond.  The population of Venezuelan immigrants in the United States has risen 54 percent since 2015, when it stood at 256,000. By 2018, this population had grown to 394,000, making it the fifth-largest South American immigrant population in the United States.

 

 

As of 2014–18, the greater Miami, Orlando, and Houston metropolitan areas were home to 53 percent of Venezuelan immigrants. Another 7 percent of Venezuelans resided in the greater New York metropolitan area, and 3 percent lived in greater Tampa.

 

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