{"id":6146,"date":"2023-08-16T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:51:10","slug":"us-hispanics-facts-on-puerto-rican-origin-latinos","status":"publish","type":"fact-sheet","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/data-labs\/fact-sheet\/us-hispanics-facts-on-puerto-rican-origin-latinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts on Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin in the United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fact Sheets: U.S. Hispanics<\/a><\/div>
All Latinos<\/a>Argentines<\/a>Chileans<\/a>Colombians<\/a>Costa Ricans<\/a>Cubans<\/a>Dominicans<\/a>Ecuadorians<\/a>Guatemalans<\/a>Hondurans<\/a>Mexicans<\/a>Nicaraguans<\/a>Panamanians<\/a>Peruvians<\/a>Puerto Ricans<\/a>Salvadorans<\/a>Spaniards<\/a>Venezuelans<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

An estimated 5.8 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin lived in the United States in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s American Community Survey. Puerto Ricans in this statistical profile are people who self-identified as Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin and lived in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia; this includes those who were born in Puerto Rico and those who trace their family ancestry to Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puerto Ricans are the second-largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 9% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2021. (An additional 3.3 million people live in Puerto Rico.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2000 to 2021, the Puerto Rican-origin U.S. population increased 71%, growing from 3.4 million to 5.8 million. At the same time, the population of those born in Puerto Rico and living in the 50 states and D.C. grew by 25%, from 1.3 million in 2000 to 1.6 million in 2021. By comparison, Mexicans, the nation\u2019s largest Hispanic origin group, constituted 37.2 million, or 60%, of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a downloadable spreadsheet of these findings, see “U.S. Hispanic population data (detailed tables)<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Puerto Rican population in the U.S., 2000-2021<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Note: The “Total” figure for Puerto Ricans is the sum of the U.S.-born and foreign-born Puerto Rican population. Those born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens at birth. Figures greater than 1 million are rounded to the nearest 100,000; other figures greater than 100,000 are rounded to the nearest 10,000; figures that are less than or equal to 100,000 and greater than 25,000 are rounded to the nearest 5,000.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Source: Pew Research Center tabulations of the 2000 census (5% IPUMS) and the 2010 and 2021 American Community Surveys (1% IPUMS).<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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