FIGURE1 Nicaraguan-Origin Population in the U.S., 1990-2013 In thousands
An estimated 381,000 Hispanics of Nicaraguan origin resided in the United States in 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Nicaraguans in this statistical profile are people who self-identified as Hispanics of Nicaraguan origin; this means either they themselves are Nicaraguan immigrants or they trace their family ancestry to Nicaragua.
Nicaraguans are the 12th-largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 0.7% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2013. Since 1990, the Nicaraguan-origin population nearly doubled, growing from 203,000 to 381,000 over the period. At the same time, the foreign-born population of Nicaraguan origin living in the U.S. grew by 35%, up from 164,000 in 1990 to 222,000 in 2013. In comparison, Mexicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic origin group, constituted 34.6 million, or 64.1%, of the Hispanic population in 2013.
FIGURE1  | Nicaraguan-Origin Population in the U.S., 1990-2013  | In thousands  | All  | 450  | 381  | 400  | 350  | 300  | U.S born  | 250  | 203  | 200  | 222  | 150 164  | 100  | Foreign born  | 50  | 1990  | 2000  | 2005  | 2010 2013  | Note figures People 2001 in group 2005. quarterssuch as college dormitories ofthe or institutions are notincludedin  | figures People for 2001 to 2005. Changes in the wording ofthe Hispanic origin question in the  | 2000 decennial census may have led to an undercountof some Hispanic origin groups in  | thatyear. decennial For more see http://www. pewhispanic _org/2002, V05/09, /counting-the-other- origin groups  | hispanics/  | Source: Pew Research Centerta bulations of 1990 and 2000 censuses (5% IPUMS) and  | 2001-2013 American Community Surveys(1% IPUMS)  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 