One-tenth of all immigrants in the United States come from Europe. This marks a sharp decline from the mid-20th century, when they accounted for approximately three-quarters of U.S. immigrants. Migration within Europe has grown and more U.S. immigrants have arrived from other destinations. Yet since 1990, the number of Eastern European immigrants have bucked the trend, due in part to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.
This article provides an overview of contemporary European immigration to the United States, as a region and by top European countries of origin.
