Information about Latino population in the U.S. Most of this comes from the U.S. Census, which has this information in various sources. Latino Stories gathers and organizes it.
The charts below do not take into account the impact of COVID-19, which within the first few months of being detected in the U.S. resulted in massive layoffs and disproportionate numbers. Progress has been made since 1972, but it remains to be seen how much of that progress might be erased.
By 2060, the Latinx population is expected to reach 111 million, but by itself that is not an accomplishment. For years, we have heard that Latinos are the fastest growing population of color. What remains to be seen is whether this will in turn translate into a significant increase in Latinx representations in the political …
32 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2020 election. The graphs below are from the U.S. Census. It remains to be seen how COVID-19 will affect what is expected to be an election that will determine the future of Latino populations in the U.S. and in Latin America. Want to learn about how …
The table below is from a pdf file on the U.S. Census website. Notice that Michigan and Puerto Rico were the only places were the Latinx population went down from 2000 to 2010.
According to the U.S. Census, “From 1996 to 2016, the number of Hispanic students enrolled in schools, colleges and universities in the United States doubled from 8.8 million to 17.9 million. Hispanic students now make up 22.7 percent of all people enrolled in school.” Although Latinx populations are still underrepresented in leadership positions in education, …
