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

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

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1820 to 1957

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* 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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