Facts on Latinos in the U.S.
There were nearly 62.5 million Latinos in the United States in 2021, accounting for approximately 19% of the total U.S. population.
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There were nearly 62.5 million Latinos in the United States in 2021, accounting for approximately 19% of the total U.S. population.
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States reached 10.5 million in 2021. That was a modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
El Salvador experienced a 40% drop in remittances in April 2020 compared with April 2019, the largest decline among the six nations analyzed.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
An estimated 830,000 Hispanics of Ecuadorian origin lived in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.
The 69 immigrants and children of immigrants in the 116th Congress claim heritage in 38 countries and are overwhelmingly Democrats.
At least 65 of the current voting members of Congress are immigrants or the children of immigrants. These members represent nearly half of U.S. states.
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