For the first time in history, one in five U.S. residents is of Latino origin, for a total of 68 million people, a report by the Latino GDP project of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California Lutheran University revealed Tuesday, October 7.
The study found an annual increase of 2 million people of Latino origin in 2024 by analyzing updated Census Bureau data, which reports a total U.S. population of 340 million.
Latinos in the U.S. are on the rise
For the first time in history, one in five U.S. residents is Latino, for a total of 68 million people, according to a report by the Latino GDP project.https://t.co/n4bKfyXA4c.
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This implies that the Latino community grew by 2.9% from 2023 to 2024, a rate that is equivalent to 5.8 times the increase in the population of other origins, the report said.
To explain the increase, the study cited “natural population change,” which results from subtracting deaths from births, implying a cumulative growth of 3.2 million Latinos from 2020 to 2024 versus a decline of 1.3 million people of other demographics over the same period.
“This is an extraordinary difference of 4.5 million people. Latinos withstood the extraordinary challenges of the (covid-19) pandemic and were responsible for keeping the overall U.S. natural population change positive,” the report noted.
The report also pointed to a record year-on-year rise in 2024 of 5.5% in the Latino-origin workforce to 35.1 million workers, which is also a 46.5% increase since 2010, a growth rate 7.2 times faster than the rest of the population.
Labor record
The labor participation rate among Latinos also reached a record high of 69%.
“Time and again, we find that hard work, self-reliance, optimism and perseverance are characteristics that underlie the strength and resilience of U.S. Latinos,” commented Matthew Fienup, executive director of Cal Lutheran’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting.
These findings come on the heels of other research in April by Latino GDP that revealed that the gross domestic product (GDP) of Latinos in the United States reached a value of $4.1 trillion, the fifth highest in the world, ahead of India.
But this study also comes on the heels of revelations that the United States lost 1.4 million migrants in the first six months of the Donald Trump Administration, marking the first drop in the immigrant population since the 1960s, a Pew Research Center report exposed in August.
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With information from EFE
