Migration from all continents to the US 1820-1957

Between 1820 and 1957, almost 41 million people migrated the the United States of America from all over the world. The continent with the highest number of migrants was Europe, where more than 34 of the 41 million migrants came from. Following Europe was the Americas (over 5.5 million migrants) and Asia (over one million migrants). The continents with the fewest migrants to the US were Oceania (with over 100,000 migrants) and Africa*, which had just 42,000 documented migrants to the US in this 137 year period.

Total number of documented migrants from each continent to the United States between 1820 and 1957

Year	Europe	Asia	The Americas	Africa	Oceania	Unassigned/Unknown
1957	169,625	20,008	134,160	1,600	1,458	16
1956	156,866	17,327	144,713	1,351	1,346	22
1955	110,591	10,935	110,436	1,203	1,028	3,597
1954	92,121	9,970	95,587	1,248	910	8,341
1953	82,352	8,231	77,650	989	782	430
1952	193,626	9,328	61,049	931	578	8
1951	149,545	3,921	47,631	845	527	3,248
1950	199,115	3,779	44,191	849	517	736
1949	129,592	6,438	49,334	995	776	1,182
1948	103,544	10,739	52,746	1,027	1,336	1,178
1947	83,535	5,823	52,753	1,284	2,960	937
1946	52,852	1,633	46,066	1,516	6,106	548
1945	5,943	442	29,646	406	1,663	19
1944	4,509	227	23,084	112	615	4
1943	4,920	334	18,162	141	160	8
1942	11,153	564	16,377	473	163	51
1941	26,541	1,801	22,445	564	255	170
1940	50,454	1,913	17,822	202	228	137
1939	63,138	2,162	17,139	218	222	119
1938	44,495	2,376	20,486	174	248	116
1937	31,863	1,065	16,903	155	174	84
1936	23,480	721	11,786	105	165	72
1935	22,778	682	11,174	118	141	63
1934	17,210	597	11,409	104	147	3
1933	12,383	552	9,925	71	137	-
1932	20,579	1,931	125,777	186	303	-
1931	61,909	3,345	30,816	417	652	-
1930	147,438	4,535	88,104	572	1,051	-
1929	158,598	3,758	116,177	509	636	-
1928	158,513	3,380	144,281	475	606	-
1927	168,368	3,669	161,872	520	746	-
1926	155,562	3,413	144,393	529	591	-
1925	148,366	3,578	141,946	412	462	-
1924	364,339	22,065	318,855	900	679	58
1923	307,920	13,705	199,972	548	759	15
1922	216,385	14,263	77,448	520	915	25
1921	652,364	25,034	124,118	1,301	2,281	130
1920	246,295	17,505	162,666	648	2,185	702
1919	24,627	12,674	102,286	189	1,310	46
1918	31,063	12,701	65,418	299	1,090	47
1917	133,083	12,756	147,779	566	1,142	77
1916	145,699	13,204	137,424	894	1,574	31
1915	197,919	15,211	111,206	934	1,399	31
1914	1,058,391	34,273	122,695	1,539	1,446	136
1913	1,055,855	35,358	103,907	1,409	1,340	23
1912	718,875	21,449	95,926	1,009	898	15
1911	764,757	17,428	94,364	956	1,043	39
1910	926,291	23,533	89,534	1,072	1,097	43
1909	654,875	12,904	82,208	858	892	49
1908	691,901	28,365	59,997	1,411	1,179	17
1907	1,199,566	40,524	41,762	1,486	1,989	22
1906**	1,018,365	22,300	24,613	712	1,733	33,012
1905	974,273	23,925	25,217	757	2,166	161
1904	767,933	26,186	16,420	686	1,555	90
1903	814,507	29,966	11,023	176	1,349	25
1902	619,068	22,271	6,698	37	566	103
1901	469,237	13,593	4,416	173	498	1
1900	424,700	17,946	5,455	30	428	13
1899	297,349	8,972	4,316	51	810	217
1898	217,786	8,637	2,627	48	201	-
1897	216,397	9,662	4,537	37	199	-
1896	329,067	6,764	7,303	21	112	-
1895	250,342	4,495	3,508	36	155	-
1894	277,052	4,690	3,551	24	244	70
1893	429,324	2,392	2,593	-	248	5,173
1892	570,876	-	-	-	267	8,520
1891	546,085	7,678	5,082	103	1,301	70
1890	445,680	4,448	3,833	112	1,167	62
1889	434,790	1,725	5,459	187	2,196	70
1888	538,131	843	5,402	65	2,387	61
1887	482,829	615	5,270	40	1,282	73
1886	329,529	317	3,026	122	1,136	73
1885	358,083	198	41,203	112	679	71
1884	453,686	510	63,339	59	900	98
1883	522,587	8,113	71,729	67	747	79
1882	648,186	39,629	100,129	60	889	99
1881	528,545	11,982	127,577	33	1,191	103
1880	348,691	5,839	101,692	18	954	63
1879	134,259	9,660	33,043	12	816	36
1878	101,612	9,014	27,204	18	606	15
1877	106,195	10,640	24,065	16	914	27
1876	120,920	22,943	24,686	89	1,312	36
1875	182,961	16,499	26,640	54	1,268	76
1874	262,783	13,838	35,339	58	1,193	128
1873	397,541	20,325	40,335	28	1,414	160
1872	352,155	7,825	42,205	41	2,416	164
1871	265,145	7,240	48,835	24	21	85
1870	328,626	15,825	42,658	31	36	27
1869	315,963	12,949	23,767	72	-	17
1868	130,090	5,171	3,415	3	-	161
1867	283,751	3,961	24,715	25	-	3,270
1866	278,916	2,411	33,582	33	-	3,626
1865	214,048	2,947	22,778	49	-	8,298
1864	185,233	2,982	4,607	37	-	559
1863	163,733	7,216	4,147	3	-	1,183
1862	83,710	3,640	4,175	12	-	448
1861	81,200	7,528	2,763	47	-	380
1860	141,209	5,476	6,343	126	-	486
1859	110,949	3,461	5,466	11	-	1,395
1858	111,354	5,133	5,821	17	-	801
1857	216,224	5,945	6,811	25	-	22,301
1856	186,083	4,747	9,058	6	-	542
1855	187,729	3,540	9,260	14	-	334
1854	405,542	13,100	8,533	-	-	658
1853	361,576	47	6,030	8	-	984
1852	362,484	4	7,695	-	-	1,420
1851	369,510	2	9,703	3	-	248
1850	308,323	7	15,768	-	-	45,882
1849	286,501	11	8,904	3	-	1,605
1848	218,025	8	7,989	10	-	495
1847	229,117	12	5,231	-	-	608
1846	146,315	11	5,525	1	-	2,564
1845	109,301	6	5,035	4	-	25
1844	74,745	6	3,740	14	-	110
1843	49,013	11	2,854	6	-	612
1842	99,945	7	3,994	3	-	616
1841	76,216	3	3,429	14	-	627
1840	80,126	1	3,815	6	-	118
1839	64,148	-	3,617	10	-	294
1838	34,070	1	2,990	10	-	1,843
1837	71,039	11	3,628	2	-	4,660
1836	70,465	4	4,936	6	-	831
1835	41,987	17	3,312	14	-	44
1834	57,510	6	2,779	1	-	5,069
1833	29,111	3	3,282	1	-	26,243
1832	34,193	4	2,871	2	-	23,412
1831	13,039	1	2,194	2	-	7,397
1830	7,217	-	2,296	2	-	13,807
1829	12,523	2	3,299	1	-	6,695
1828	24,729	3	2,090	6	-	554
1827	16,719	1	580	4	-	1,571
1826	9,751	1	831	-	-	254
1825	8,543	1	846	1	-	808
1824	4,965	1	559	-	-	2,387
1823	4,016	-	382	-	-	1,956
1822	4,418	1	378	-	-	2,114
1821	5,936	-	303	2	-	2,886
1820	7,691	5	387	1	-	301

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Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, United States, Australia and Oceania, APAC

Survey time period

1820 to 1957

Supplementary notes

* Although the practice of slavery was not legally abolished until 1865, the slave trade (the importation, buying and selling of slaves) had been illegal since 1808. Despite this, there was still some smuggling from Africa and the Caribbean in the decades that followed.
** Data for "unassigned/unknown" includes 32,897 persons returning home to the United States.

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