Foreign-born share of state populations

New data from the Census Bureau shows how the foreign-born population — meaning anyone born outside the US, including naturalized citizens and people authorized to be in the US on visas — continues to shape the country. Here’s the 2024 data on these populations.

• In 2024, 50.2 million people living in the US were foreign-born. That’s about one in seven residents, or 14.8% of the total population — up from 13.3% a decade earlier.
• Overall, the nation’s foreign-born population grew from 42.4 million people in 2014 to 50.2 million in 2024.