FIGURE1 Venezuelan-Origin Population in the U.S., 1990-2013 In thousands 300
An estimated 248,000 Hispanics of Venezuelan origin resided in the United States in 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Venezuelans in this statistical profile are people who self-identified as Hispanics of Venezuelan origin; this means either they themselves are Venezuelan immigrants or they trace their family ancestry to Venezuela.
Venezuelans are the 13th-largest population of Hispanic origin living in the United States, accounting for 0.5% of the U.S. Hispanic population in 2013. Since 1990, the Venezuelan-origin population has grown more than fivefold, going from 49,000 to 248,000 over the period. At the same time, the foreign-born population of Venezuelan origin living in the U.S. grew by 388%, up from 35,000 in 1990 to 170,000 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  | Venezuelan-Origin Population in the U.S., 1990-2013  | In thousands  | 300  | All  | 248  | 250  | 200  | U.S born  | 170  | 150  | 100  | 49  | Foreign born  | 50  | 35  | 1990  | 2000  | 2005  | 2010 2013  | Note People in group quarterssuch as college dormitories or institutions question are notincludedin  | figures for 2001 to 2005. Changes in the college wording ofthe Hispanic origin question in the  | 2000 decennial census may have led to an undercountof some Hispanic origin groups in  | thatyear. For more see http: //www. pewhispanic _org/2002 V05/09, V.counting-the-oh:  | hispanics/  | Source: Pew Research Centerta bulations of 1990 and 2000 censuses (5% IPUMS) and  | 2001- 2013 American Community Surveys(1% IPUMS)  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 