7 facts about Venezuelans in the U.S.
The number of Venezuelans in the U.S. has more than doubled in five years, to about 1.2 million. Here’s what we know about this population.

Senior Writer/Editor
Dalia Fahmy is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center, focusing on race, ethnicity and migration in the United States. Before that, she wrote and edited Center publications on religion. In recent years, she has worked on the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study, and many reports including Religion and Spirituality in East Asian Societies and How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020. Before joining the Center, Fahmy worked as a business journalist for news organizations in New York and Berlin, including CNBC television and Bloomberg News. And before that, she wrote frequently for The New York Times, New York Post and Financial Times. She is originally from Egypt and graduated from Vesalius College in Belgium.