Key facts about the wealth of immigrant households during the COVID-19 pandemic
The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.
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The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.
In 2021, there were 2.6 million foreign-born Hispanics who had been in the U.S. for five years or less. This is down from 3.8 million in 2000.
In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.
32% of U.S.-born Asian adults have hidden a part of their heritage, compared with 15% of immigrants.
Burmese (19%) and Hmong Americans (17%) were among the Asian origin groups with the highest poverty rates in 2022.
The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
About one-in-four Asian Americans (24%) consider themselves extremely or very informed about the history of Asian people in the United States.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
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