{"id": 1293102, "name": "People granted permanent residency in the United States, by country of origin", "unit": "people", "createdAt": "2026-07-22T10:24:21.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-07-23T09:02:45.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1820-2019", "datasetId": 8074, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "immigrants", "catalogPath": "grapher/migration/2026-07-22/us_lawful_permanent_residents/by_country_of_origin#immigrants", "type": "int", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019f899d-74a3-700a-9567-bad46ab034fe", "dataChecksum": "14176244202662264902", "metadataChecksum": "-3358109931808419046", "datasetName": "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-07-22", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "people", "timeInterval": "decade", "entityAnnotationsMap": "Korea: includes North & South\nCzechoslovakia: includes Czechia & Slovakia\nYugoslavia: includes successor countries"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Migration"]}, "descriptionKey": "The way immigrants were counted by the US government has changed over time.\n- **1820\u20131867:** the figures count every foreign national who arrived by ship at a US seaport, including temporary visitors and people passing through, because no distinction was yet made between immigrants and other travelers.\n- **1868\u20131891:** the figures count only foreign nationals who arrived intending to settle, because the government now separated genuine immigrants from temporary visitors and stopped counting the visitors.\n- **1892 onward:** the figures count only foreign nationals formally inspected and admitted for permanent residence, so people who arrived but were turned away at inspection are no longer included, and the count reflects a legal admission rather than a simple arrival.\n- Immigrants entering overland from Canada and Mexico were not fully counted **until 1908**.\n\nCountry borders have changed over this period, so a country's figures may not always refer to the same area.\n- The source reports some countries together for part of the period, such as Austria-Hungary and Norway-Sweden.\n- Russia refers to the Russian Empire until 1920, the Soviet Union until 1990, and a group of post-Soviet countries in the 1990s.\n- Czechoslovakia includes Czechia and Slovakia; Yugoslavia includes its successor countries; Korea includes both North and South Korea; Canada includes Newfoundland, which was a separate territory until it joined Canada in 1949.\n\nEntities like \"Asia (not specified)\" cover people known to come from a region but from a country the source does not list separately. \"America (not specified)\" covers people from the Americas who cannot be split between North and South America, and \"Not specified\" those whose origin was not recorded.", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1820}, {"id": 1830}, {"id": 1840}, {"id": 1850}, {"id": 1860}, {"id": 1870}, {"id": 1880}, {"id": 1890}, {"id": 1900}, {"id": 1910}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2010}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 372776, "name": "Africa (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 372772, "name": "America (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 372771, "name": "Asia (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 373, "name": "Austria-Hungary", "code": "OWID_AUH"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 31, "name": "Belize", "code": "BLZ"}, {"id": 34, "name": "Bolivia", "code": "BOL"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 166, "name": "Costa Rica", "code": "CRI"}, {"id": 164, "name": "Cuba", "code": "CUB"}, {"id": 267, "name": "Czechoslovakia", "code": "OWID_CZS"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 160, "name": "Dominican Republic", "code": "DOM"}, {"id": 201, "name": "Ecuador", "code": "ECU"}, {"id": 65, "name": "Egypt", "code": "EGY"}, {"id": 259, "name": "El Salvador", "code": "SLV"}, {"id": 158, "name": "Ethiopia", "code": "ETH"}, {"id": 372770, "name": "Europe (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 148, "name": "Guatemala", "code": "GTM"}, {"id": 146, "name": "Guyana", "code": "GUY"}, {"id": 145, "name": "Haiti", "code": "HTI"}, {"id": 139, "name": "Honduras", "code": "HND"}, {"id": 144, "name": "Hong Kong", "code": "HKG"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 135, "name": "Iran", "code": "IRN"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 132, "name": "Jamaica", "code": "JAM"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 130, "name": "Jordan", "code": "JOR"}, {"id": 31416, "name": "Korea", "code": null}, {"id": 121, "name": "Liberia", "code": "LBR"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 110, "name": "Morocco", "code": "MAR"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 105, "name": "Nicaragua", "code": "NIC"}, {"id": 372775, "name": "North America (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 372766, "name": "Norway-Sweden", "code": null}, {"id": 368114, "name": "Not specified", "code": null}, {"id": 372774, "name": "Oceania (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 100, "name": "Panama", "code": "PAN"}, {"id": 98, "name": "Paraguay", "code": "PRY"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 96, "name": "Philippines", "code": "PHL"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 372773, "name": "South America (not specified)", "code": null}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 271, "name": "Yugoslavia", "code": "OWID_YGS"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 18853, "titleSnapshot": "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2020 - Lawful Permanent Residents", "title": "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics", "descriptionSnapshot": "This archive contains the Lawful Permanent Residents tables of the 2020 Yearbook (Tables 1-12). We use this older edition of the yearbook because its Table 2 shows the number of people who obtained lawful permanent resident status by region and country of last residence for each decade, from the 1820s to the 2010s. Later editions of the yearbook only show the last ten fiscal years.\n\nDHS notes on the historical data: official recording of immigration to the United States began in 1820. From 1820 to 1867, the figures count passengers arriving at seaports; from 1868 to 1891 and 1895 to 1897, arriving immigrants; and from 1892 onward, immigrants admitted for permanent residence. People arriving by land were not fully counted until 1908. Before 1906, the figures refer to a person's country of origin; from 1906 onward, to their country of last residence. A few early fiscal years were shorter or longer than 12 months (1832, 1843, 1850, 1868, and 1976).", "description": "The 2020 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a collection of tables about immigration for the fiscal year.", "producer": "US Department of Homeland Security", "citationFull": "United States. Department of Homeland Security. 2020 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, 2022.", "attributionShort": "DHS", "urlMain": "https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2020/table2", "urlDownload": "https://ohss.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/21_0920_plcy_2020_yrbk_lpr_excel_final.zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-07-22", "datePublished": "2022-01-06", "license": {"name": "Public domain"}}]}