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Census Bureau Presents Historical Data on the
Foreign-Born Population in the United States
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released historical
information on the foreign-born population in the United States from 1850
to 1990.
Available on the Internet, the new report is entitled, Historical
Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States:
1850 to 1990, Population Division Working Paper No. 29. The report
updates and expands historical data on the foreign-born population last
published by the Census Bureau in 1975 in Historical Statistics of the
United States, Colonial Times to 1970.
The new report presents decennial census data on several characteristics
of the foreign-born population, including country of birth, length of
residence in the United States, citizenship and age-sex distribution. In
addition, it presents data on the total foreign-born population for
states, large cities and other geographic areas.
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The U.S. Census Bureau, pre-eminent collector and disseminator of timely,
relevant and quality data about the people and the economy of the United
States, conducts a population and housing census every 10 years, an
economic census every five years and more than 100 demographic and
economic surveys every year, all of them evolving from the first census in
1790.
