Key facts about recent trends in global migration
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
At least 81 voting members of Congress (15%) are foreign born or have at least one parent who was born in another country.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
In 2022, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a high of 46.1 million, accounting for 13.8% of the population.
75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.
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