Lauren Mora

There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population.

Key statistics about immigrants in the United States from 1980 to 2018.

The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.