Hispanic Nativity Shift - Pew Hispanic Center

April 29, 2014Hispanic Nativity ShiftU.S. births drive population growth as immigration stallsBy Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo LopezAfter four decades of rapid growth (Brown, 2014), the number of Latino immigrants in the U.S. reached a record 18.8 million in 2010, but has since stalled, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Since 2000, the U.S.-born Latino population continued to grow at a faster rate than the immigrant population. As a result, the foreign-born share of Latinos is now in decline.Among Hispanic adults in 2012, 49.8% were born in another country, down from a peak of 55% in 2007. Among all Hispanics, the share foreign-born was 35.5% in 2012, down from about 40% earlier in the 2000s.The slowdown in growth …


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