Immigrants Admitted as Permanent Residents Under Refugee Acts, by Country of Birth, 1971–1998
Covers immigrants who were allowed to enter the United States under 1953 Refugee Relief Act and later acts; Hungarian parolees under July 1958 act; refugee-escapee parolees under July 1960 act; conditional entries by refugees under Oct. 1965 act; Cuban parolees under Nov. 1966 act; beginning 1978, Indochina refugees under Oct. 1977 act; beginning 1980, refugee-parolees under the Oct. 1978 act, and asylees under the March 1980 act; and beginning 1981, refugees under the March 1980 act.
Country of birth | 1971–80, total | 1981–90, total | 1991–96, total | 1998 |
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Total | 539,447 | 1,013,620 | 748,122 | 54,645 |
Europe1 | 71,858 | 155,512 | 312,815 | 19,048 |
Czecho- slovakia, former | 3,646 | 8,204 | 1,201 | 15 |
Hungary | 4,358 | 4,942 | 1,231 | 14 |
Poland | 5,882 | 33,889 | 7,210 | 54 |
Romania | 6,812 | 29,798 | 15,139 | 116 |
Soviet Union, former2 | 31,309 | 72,306 | 264,187 | 13,200 |
Armenia | n.a. | n.a. | 1,5464 | 158 |
Azerbaijan | n.a. | n.a. | 10,0494 | 196 |
Belarus | n.a. | n.a. | 19,5454 | 557 |
Georgia | n.a. | n.a. | 1,8344 | 100 |
Kazakhstan | n.a. | n.a. | 2,8234 | 152 |
Moldova | n.a. | n.a. | 9,3004 | 272 |
Russia | n.a. | n.a. | 44,3674 | 2,225 |
Tajikistan | n.a. | n.a. | 2,1914 | 24 |
Ukraine | n.a. | n.a. | 81,2634 | 3,641 |
Uzbekistan | n.a. | n.a. | 14,6384 | 292 |
Yugoslavia | 11,297 | 324 | 13,2714 | 5,312 |
Asia1 | 210,683 | 712,092 | 286,125 | 11,743 |
Afghanistan | 542 | 22,946 | 9,065 | 137 |
Cambodia | 7,739 | 114,064 | 6,088 | 62 |
China3 | 13,760 | 7,928 | 5,079 | 898 |
India | n.a. | n.a. | 1,125 | 373 |
Iran | 364 | 46,773 | 20,126 | 754 |
Iraq | 6,851 | 7,540 | 14,464 | 999 |
Laos | 21,690 | 142,964 | 33,701 | 1,110 |
Thailand | 1,241 | 30,259 | 19,323 | 1,134 |
Vietnam | 150,266 | 324,453 | 169,560 | 4,921 |
North America1 | 252,633 | 121,840 | 111,744 | 16,372 |
Cuba | 251,514 | 113,367 | 76,370 | 14,915 |
El Salvador | 45 | 1,383 | 3,623 | 129 |
Haiti | n.a. | n.a. | 7,309 | 537 |
Nicaragua | 36 | 5,590 | 21,252 | 316 |
South America1 | 1,244 | 1,976 | 3,025 | 712 |
Peru | n.a. | n.a. | 1,285 | 338 |
Africa1 | 2,991 | 22,149 | 34,224 | 4,225 |
Ethiopia | 1,307 | 18,542 | 15,849 | 507 |
Liberia | n.a. | n.a. | 2,712 | 225 |
Somalia | n.a. | n.a. | 7,864 | 2,270 |
Sudan | n.a. | n.a. | 3,422 | 287 |
Other | 38 | 51 | 189 | 2,545 |
n.a. = not available.
1. Includes other countries, not shown separately.
2. Includes other republics and unknown republics, not shown separately.
3. Includes Taiwan.
4. Covers the years 1992–1996.
Source: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Statistical Yearbook, annual, and releases.
Countries of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population, 1850–2000 | Immigration | Highly Skilled Migrant Workers in the U.S. |