Ranked: The Largest Immigrant Groups in America

Visual Capitalist ^ | 09/14/2025 | Marcus Lu | Graphics/Design: Amy Kuo

[SeekAndFind]

Key Takeaways

• America’s total foreign-born population was 47.8 million people as of 2023.
• Mexico is the largest source of immigrants by a huge margin, with other leading sources including India, China, and the Philippines.

The U.S. has long been a top destination for immigrants seeking better opportunities. As of 2023, nearly 48 million people in the country were born abroad, representing 14% of the country’s total population.

In this visualization, we break down the largest immigrant groups in America by nationality, highlighting the top 10 countries from each region. Note that this analysis covers legal immigrants only. Check out our previous post to see a similar breakdown of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.

Data & Discussion

The data for this visualization comes from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). It shows the number of foreign-born U.S. residents by country of origin, as of 2023.

Americas: 25.3M Immigrants

Mexico stands out as the dominant source of U.S. immigrants, with nearly 11 million as of 2023. Historical ties, geographic proximity, and longstanding migration channels are major factors.

Several other Latin American countries rank highly, including El Salvador, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

Country	Immigrants
🇲🇽 Mexico	10,918,205
🇸🇻 El Salvador	1,494,869
🇨🇺 Cuba	1,450,808
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1,265,231
🇬🇹 Guatemala	1,250,053
🇨🇴 Colombia	1,049,821
🇭🇳 Honduras	934,617
🇨🇦 Canada	828,396
🇯🇲 Jamaica	817,294
🇭🇹 Haiti	777,845
🌎 Other Americas	4,528,390

Asia: 14.9M Immigrants

After the Americas, Asia & Oceania is the next largest source of U.S. immigrants.

Country	Immigrants
🇮🇳 India	2,910,042
🇨🇳 China	2,193,250
🇵🇭 Philippines	2,051,900
🇻🇳 Vietnam	1,365,841
🇰🇷 Korea	1,017,250
🇵🇰 Pakistan	428,795
🇮🇷 Iran	419,885
🇹🇼 Taiwan	392,012
🇯🇵 Japan	337,877
🇧🇩 Bangladesh	333,026
🌏 Rest of Asia/Oceania	3,455,271

India (2.9 million) is the second-largest country source after Mexico, while China (2.2 million) and the Philippines (2.05 million) also rank in the top five.

Fact:
In 2024, Indian students accounted for nearly 30% of all international students in the U.S.

Europe: 4.8M Immigrants

While Europe was once the primary source of immigrants to America, its share has declined over time. The combined European total remains substantial, though spread across many countries.

Country	Immigrants
🇬🇧 UK	693,465
🇩🇪 Germany	520,418
🇺🇦 Ukraine	468,780
🇷🇺 Russia	415,809
🇵🇱 Poland	382,844
🇮🇹 Italy	295,002
🇫🇷 France	187,003
🇵🇹 Portugal	160,729
🇷🇴 Romania	152,470
🇪🇸 Spain	126,067
🌍 Rest of Europe	1,416,462

Africa: 2.8M Immigrants

Africa is the region with the least amount of immigrants living in America.

Country	Immigrants
🇳🇬 Nigeria	476,008
🇪🇹 Ethiopia	278,182
🇬🇭 Ghana	241,477
🇪🇬 Egypt	225,665
🇰🇪 Kenya	174,734
🇿🇦 South Africa	133,359
🇲🇦 Morocco	109,370
🇱🇷 Liberia	100,769
🇸🇴 Somalia	92,401
🇨🇲 Cameroon	90,749
🌍 Rest of Africa	868,612

According to historical MPI data, the annual number of new permanent residents from Africa has grown slowly and inconsistently. This could be due to closer ties between Africa and China.

[SeekAndFind]

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

47.8 million.

But the media kept telling us it was only 11 million.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“47.8 million.

But the media kept telling us it was only 11 million.”
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About 1/6 of the entire population. There’s no way to change that in any short term plan.

[Telepathic Intruder]

At least Mexicans are mostly Christian instead of the religion of Baal, but any immigrant that does not want to blend in and respect our flag and culture should be loaded onto a plane or a bus and sent straight back where they came from.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

47.8 million. But the media kept telling us it was only 11 million.

The 47.8 million foreign-born population are the legal immigrants. And then add the illegals. The country has been overrun by foreigners.

[KarlInOhio]

It was 11 million illegals. Somehow it stopped there and never increased no matter how many arrived or how few returned, legalized or died.

Math where x + y = x for positive values of y is what drove Georg Cantor mad.

More seriously, I think polling on the acceptance of illegals dropped precipitously when it hit 10 million, so the official count was never allowed to advance.

[wardaddy]

25 million non whites not counting some Latinos

1.4 million European

Great

Plenty to fit our resident Victim victimizer binary

Can’t say I mind Vietnamese or Filipinos much

Thank you Lion of the Senate and your GOPe quisling pardz

I tried to explain this here 25 years ago and was shouted down as racist

Now not a peep

Does this mean I was right?

White people so stupid since I dunno …..the 70s?

How did our civilization you guys know …the one I wish to preserve …the western one ever accomplish what it did sharing reason and self governance and at times even unprecedented mercy and opportunity with the savage totalitarian world we conquered or yes even colonized however unpalatable that notion is to our brimming self righteous sensibilities now ?

Maybe because our ancestors were our betters

[MachIV]

Demographics is destiny.

[Liz]

The Largest Immigrant Groups in America———
all of them taking jobs from Americans.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Too many to assimilate. We should mostly limit it to countries with similar culture to ours, meaning Western Civilization.

[FlingWingFlyer]

During the Joe Pedo Illegal Alien Invasion of America, Mexico kept lying to us that none of the illegal invaders were Mexicans and the hatefilled “media’ pimped those lies. Remember, Mexico is not our friend. It is our biggest enemy and without all the money they are stealing from America, they would never survive. It’s a real sewer.

[9YearLurker]

It is illegals—and there are well over 50 million of them.

[dennisw]

as far as can tell these numbers are for legal immigrants...... illegals were ignored

[FlingWingFlyer]

Look at friggin’ Mexico. Mexico is not our friend.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[AZJeep]

No,
Note:
These are the LEGAL ones!

Your media ~11 millions or more are the illegals on top of those.

So add it together, maybe ~60 millions?!

[ReganFan4ever]

It seems these figures don’t include illegal aliens.

Is this correct?

In addition, I’d like to point that when counting people the correct term is NUMBERS not amount.

[ReganFan4ever]

… point out.

[null and void]

Floods are measured in amounts.

[Flavious_Maximus]

I’ll take every Jamaican (and even every Haitian) over a single Islamist. At least Jamaican’s assimilate (for the most part). Muslims NEVER assimilate. They come to conquer and kill infidels.

And if the UK transsexual censors don’t like my words, then eat $hit. /spit