Facts on Hispanics of Nicaraguan origin in the United States, 2021
An estimated 450,000 Hispanics of Nicaraguan origin resided in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
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An estimated 450,000 Hispanics of Nicaraguan origin resided in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.
Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants.
More than half of foreign-born Latinos describe themselves using the name of their origin country, versus 39% among U.S.-born adult children of immigrants.
If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren’t counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.
About eight-in-ten Latino registered voters and U.S. voters overall rate the economy as very important to their vote.
El Salvador experienced a 40% drop in remittances in April 2020 compared with April 2019, the largest decline among the six nations analyzed.
91% of Democrats favor granting legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children; 54% of Republicans say the same.
About half of U.S. Hispanics said in our December 2019 survey that they had serious concerns about their place in the country.
In battleground states, Hispanics grew more than other racial or ethnic groups as a share of eligible voters.
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