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Roughly seven-in-ten Hispanic adults (69%) say that having a Hispanic high school STEM teacher would make young Hispanic people more likely to pursue these degrees.
Three-quarters of Hispanics who have heard of the term Latinx say it should not be used to describe the Hispanic or Latino population.
Government data shows gains in education, employment and earnings for Hispanic women, but gaps with other groups remain.
U.S.-born Latinos mostly get their news in English and prefer it in English, while immigrant Latinos have much more varied habits.
In 2021, nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States held advanced degrees such as master’s degrees or doctorates.
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.
The U.S. population grew by 24.5 million from 2010 to 2022, and Hispanics accounted for 53% of this increase.
Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish: 75% say they are able to carry on a conversation in Spanish pretty well or very well. But not all Latinos are Spanish speakers, and about half (54%) of non-Spanish-speaking Latinos have been shamed by other Latinos for not speaking Spanish.
There were nearly 62.5 million Latinos in the United States in 2021, accounting for approximately 19% of the total U.S. population.
An estimated 290,000 Hispanics of Argentine origin lived in the United States in 202, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
