Births to Immigrant Mothers Rising

Faster than Immigrant Population

Births to Immigrant Mothers

Immigrant Population

Number

% of all Births

Number (mil.)

% of total population

1970

228,486

6.1%

9..7

4.7%

1980

339,662

9.4%

14.1

6.2%

1990

621,442

14.9%

19.8

7.9%

2002

915,800

22.7%

32.5

11.5%

Source: Steven Camarota, "Births to Immigrants in America, 1970 to 2002,"

Center for Immigration Studies, July 2005. Figure 2.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back805.html