Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990

Campbell J. Gibson and Emily Lennon

Foreign-born population; United States immigration history; Immigration statistics; Demography; Census data

A working paper presenting selected decennial census data on the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 1990, with 22 statistical tables covering country of birth, language, race, citizenship status, length of residence, and geographic distribution. Updates and expands data previously published in Historical Statistics of the United States, 1800s to 1970.

U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division

Kay Jung (collaboration); Immigration and Naturalization Service (partial funding)

February 1999

Dataset; Text

Statistics, website

U.S. decennial census publications, 1850–1990; Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1975 https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1999/demo/POP-twps0029.html