As civil wars engulfed several Central American countries in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans fled their country and came to the United States. Between 1980 and 1990, <answer>the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000.</answer> The number of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters that hit El Salvador, including earthquakes and hurricanes. By 2008, there were about 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States.
Are the Salvadorans a large population in the U.S.?
the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000.