Population, legal immigration, H-1B visas and border encounters.
Sources & methodology
Foreign-born residents
50,234,858 · 2024 · United States
Residents who were not U.S. citizens at birth; includes naturalized citizens and noncitizens.
Calculation: Published B05002 estimate; no rounding or scaling.
Population: Total resident population
Limitations: 2023 and 2024 ACS 1-year estimates, all population components, national and 50 states plus DC. Sampling error: published margins of error are 90% confidence margins. Negative sentinel values are missing, including controlled total-population MOEs. Derived shares have no invented MOE. B05006 excludes people born at sea, so its total can differ from B05002. Older observations on this site come from ACSBR-019 with rounded counts and different scope; do not use them as an exact baseline for this release.
ACS 1-year estimates · B05002 (2023–2024) and B05006 (2024) ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-17 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022 ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-16 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
Full metric, history & downloads →Foreign-born share
14.8% · 2024 · United States
Foreign-born residents as a percentage of all residents.
Calculation: B05002_013 estimate ÷ B05002_001 estimate × 100.
Population: Total resident population
Limitations: 2023 and 2024 ACS 1-year estimates, all population components, national and 50 states plus DC. Sampling error: published margins of error are 90% confidence margins. Negative sentinel values are missing, including controlled total-population MOEs. Derived shares have no invented MOE. B05006 excludes people born at sea, so its total can differ from B05002. Older observations on this site come from ACSBR-019 with rounded counts and different scope; do not use them as an exact baseline for this release.
ACS 1-year estimates · B05002 (2023–2024) and B05006 (2024) ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-17 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022 ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-16 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
Full metric, history & downloads →Population growth
+5.0% · 2023–2024 · total change · United States
Residents who were not U.S. citizens at birth; includes naturalized citizens and noncitizens.
Calculation: (50,234,858 − 47,831,411) ÷ 47,831,411 × 100
Total relative change in the foreign-born population between the labelled dates, calculated from the same published series. This is not an annual growth rate, a change in population share, or a census-to-census comparison. Comparison windows differ between countries.
Population: Total resident population
Limitations: 2023 and 2024 ACS 1-year estimates, all population components, national and 50 states plus DC. Sampling error: published margins of error are 90% confidence margins. Negative sentinel values are missing, including controlled total-population MOEs. Derived shares have no invented MOE. B05006 excludes people born at sea, so its total can differ from B05002. Older observations on this site come from ACSBR-019 with rounded counts and different scope; do not use them as an exact baseline for this release.
ACS 1-year estimates · B05002 (2023–2024) and B05006 (2024) ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-17 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022 ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-16 · Site record updated 2026-09-17
Full metric, history & downloads →